ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

HB 2040: pharmacy board; definitions; reporting

PRIME SPONSOR: Representative Carter, LD 15

BILL STATUS: Health

Abstract

Relating to Board definitions and the CSPMP.

Provisions

1. Adds satellite pharmacies to the definition of pharmacy. (Sec. 1)

2. Defines revocation or revoke as the cancellation of a Board authorized registration, license or permit for at least two years before a reinstatement request can be presented to the Board. (Sec. 1)

3. Defines satellite pharmacy as a work place located on or within a hospital campus that is not separated by other non-hospital property, under the supervision of a pharmacist and owned by and dependent on a centrally-located hospital pharmacy. (Sec. 1)

4. Defines day as a business day. (Sec. 1)

5. Allows the Board to discipline a permit holder or licensee if their permit or license was denied in another jurisdiction regardless of reinstatement. (Sec. 2)

6. Clarifies that a CSPMP reporter must report required dispensing information daily. (Sec. 3)

7. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1, 2)

Current Law

A.R.S. § 32-1901 contains definitions for Board statutes. Specifically, a pharmacy is defined as a place where drugs, devices and other substances are sold at retail and where a pharmacist dispenses or compounds prescriptions orders.

A.R.S. § 36-2608 requires a medical practitioner who dispenses a controlled substance, a pharmacist who dispenses a prescription in Arizona and a hospital or a Board-permitted nonresident pharmacy that dispenses controlled substances to report outlined information to the CSPMP. Statute prohibits the Board from requiring the reporting more frequently than once per day.

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Fifty-third Legislature                  HB 2040

Second Regular Session                               Version 1: Health

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