SLS 18RS-541 ENGROSSED
2018 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 134
BY SENATOR MILLS
PHARMACEUTICALS. Provides relative to prescriptions for controlled dangerous
substances. (8/1/18)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 40:978(A), relative to prescriptions for controlled dangerous
3 substances; to provide for patient options regarding quantity dispensed; to provide
4 technical corrections; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 40:978(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง978. Prescriptions
8 A. Except when dispensed or administered directly by a medical practitioner
9 or administered by a person authorized to administer by such practitioner, other than
10 a pharmacist, to an ultimate user, no controlled dangerous substance included in
11 Schedule II, which is a prescription drug as determined under the Louisiana Revised
12 Statutes of 1950, may be dispensed or administered without either the written
13 prescription of a practitioner, or an electronic prescription order as provided by
14 federal law or regulation, except that in emergency situations, as prescribed by the
15 department board by regulation, such drug may be dispensed or administered upon
16 oral prescription reduced promptly to writing and filed by the pharmacist.
17 Prescriptions shall be retained in conformity with the requirements of R.S. 40:976.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions. SB NO. 134
SLS 18RS-541 ENGROSSED
1 No prescription for a Schedule II substance may be refilled nor may such
2 prescription be filled more than ninety days after the date of the prescription. The
3 pharmacist filling a prescription for a Schedule II substance may, upon request
4 of the patient, dispense the prescribed substance in an amount less than the full
5 quantity prescribed in accordance with 21 U.S.C. 829.
6 * * *
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christine Arbo Peck.
DIGEST
SB 134 Engrossed 2018 Regular Session Mills
Present law provides for prescriptions for controlled dangerous substances. Proposed law
provides that a patient may request that the pharmacist dispense less of a Schedule II drug
than the amount indicated in the prescription.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Amends R.S. 40:978(A))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.