By: Hughes S.B. No. 2377
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the provision of pharmacy services through a
telepharmacy system located at a remote dispensing site.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 562.110(h) and (i), Occupations Code,
as added by Chapter 929 (S.B. 1633), Acts of the 85th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2017, are amended to read as follows:
(h) A [Except as provided by Subsection (j), a] telepharmacy
system located at a remote dispensing site under Subsection (d)(2)
may not be located within 10 [25] miles by road of a Class A
pharmacy.
(i) If [Except as provided by Subsection (j), if] a Class A
pharmacy is established within 10 [25] miles by road of a remote
dispensing site that is currently operating, the remote dispensing
site may continue to operate at that location.
SECTION 2. (a) Sections 562.110(g), (h), and (i),
Occupations Code, as added by Chapter 485 (H.B. 2561), Acts of the
85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, are repealed.
(b) Section 562.110(j), Occupations Code, is repealed.
SECTION 3. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.