The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Christine Arbo Peck.
DIGEST
SB 90 Original 2018 Regular Session Mills
Proposed law requires LDH to establish and post a voluntary nonopioid directive form on its website
to allow a patient to voluntarily opt-out of receiving opioid prescriptions from his prescribing
practitioner(s). Proposed law allows a patient to appoint a duly authorized guardian or health care
representative to override an opt-out directive orally or in writing, for any reason, at any time.
Proposed law provides immunity from civil, criminal, and professional licensure sanctions for
pharmacists who dispense an opioid based on an electronic prescription, prescribing practitioners
acting with reasonable care for refusing to issue an opioid prescription, an authorized guardian or
health care representative for revoking the nonopioid directive, and an emergency department
prescribing practitioner or emergency medical services personnel for issuing a prescription for or
administering a controlled substance containing an opioid.
Proposed law authorizes health professional licensing boards that regulate prescribers to promulgate
rules regarding disciplinary action against a prescribing practitioner who willfully fails to comply
with a patient's voluntary nonopioid directive form.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Adds R.S. 40:1156.1)