WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 526
By Senator Chapman
[Introduced on February 19, 2025; referred
to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to 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, and §30-5A-3, relating to creating the Pharmacist Prescribing Authority Act; authorizing pharmacists to prescribe low-risk medications to patients; and listing the limitations of the prescriptions that fall under that authority.
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.
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:
(i) Do not require a new diagnosis;
(ii) Are minor and generally self-limiting;
(iii) Have a test that is used to guide diagnosis or clinical decision-making and are waived under the federal clinical laboratory improvement amendments of 1988; or
(iv) In the professional judgment of the pharmacist, are patient emergencies.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize pharmacists to practice the full extent of their education and training to prescribe low-risk medications to patients.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.