SLS 22RS-368 ENGROSSED
2022 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 97
BY SENATOR BOUDREAUX
PHARMACISTS. Provides relative to pharmacist licensure by reciprocity. (8/1/22)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 37:1203(B), relative to pharmacist licensure by reciprocity; to
3 provide for licensure by reciprocity; and to provide for related matters.
4 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. R.S. 37:1203(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
6 ยง1203. Qualifications for reciprocity
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8 B. No applicant shall be eligible for licensure by reciprocity unless the state
9 or jurisdiction in which the applicant was initially licensed as a pharmacist also
10 grants reciprocity to a pharmacist duly licensed by examination in this state, under
11 comparable circumstances and conditions.
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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. 97
SLS 22RS-368 ENGROSSED
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Brandi Cannon.
DIGEST
SB 97 Engrossed 2022 Regular Session Boudreaux
Present law provides for the qualifications required for a pharmacist currently licensed in
another jurisdiction to apply for a license as a pharmacist by reciprocity in Louisiana.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law provides that no applicant shall be eligible for licensure by reciprocity unless
the state or jurisdiction in which the applicant was initially licensed as a pharmacist also
grants reciprocity to a pharmacist duly licensed by examination in this state, under
comparable circumstances and conditions.
Proposed law retains the requirement for dual reciprocity but removes the specific
requirement that there be comparable circumstances and conditions.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Amends R.S. 37:1203(B))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.