WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 526
By Senators Chapman and Rose
[Reported March 11, 2025, from the Committee on Government Organization]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new article, designated §30-5A-1, §30-5A-2, §30-5A-3, and §30-5A-4, relating to creating the Pharmacist Prescribing Authority Act; authorizing pharmacists to prescribe low-risk medications to patients; listing the limitations of the prescriptions that fall under that authority; and exempting addition to scope of pharmacy practice from sunrise review.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
## Article 5A. Pharmacist Prescribing authority act.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Pharmacist Prescribing Authority Act.
The purpose of this act is to authorize pharmacists to practice the full extent of their education and training to prescribe low-risk medications to patients.
The scope of the practice of pharmacy includes all of §30-5-1 et seq. of this code, as well as the prescribing of drugs, drug categories, or devices, excluding controlled substances, that are prescribed in accordance with the product’s federal Food and Drug Administration-approved labeling and that are limited to conditions that:
(1) Do not require a new diagnosis;
(2) Are minor and generally self-limiting;
(3) Have a test that is used to guide diagnosis or clinical decisionmaking and is waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988; or
(4) In the professional judgment of the pharmacist, are patient emergencies.