Florida Senate - 2019                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for HB 1115
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Harrell moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 465.019, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         465.019 Institutional pharmacies; permits.—
    8         (4)(a) Medicinal drugs shall be dispensed in an
    9  institutional pharmacy to outpatients only when that institution
   10  has secured a community pharmacy permit from the department.
   11  However, an individual licensed to prescribe medicinal drugs in
   12  this state may dispense up to a 48-hour 24-hour supply of a
   13  medicinal drug to any patient of, or patient discharged from, an
   14  emergency department of a hospital that operates a Class II or
   15  Class III institutional pharmacy, provided that the physician
   16  who is treating the patient in such hospital’s emergency
   17  department, or who is treating the discharged patient,
   18  determines that the medicinal drug is warranted and that
   19  community pharmacy services are not readily accessible,
   20  geographically or otherwise, to the patient. Such dispensing
   21  from the emergency department to any patient, including a
   22  discharged patient, must be in accordance with the procedures of
   23  the hospital. For any such patient for whom a medicinal drug is
   24  warranted for a period to exceed 48 24 hours, an individual
   25  licensed to prescribe such drug must dispense a 48-hour 24-hour
   26  supply of such drug to the patient and must provide the patient
   27  with a prescription for such drug for use after the initial 48
   28  hour 24-hour period.
   29         (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), if a state of emergency
   30  has been declared for an area of the state pursuant to s.
   31  252.36, an individual licensed to prescribe medicinal drugs in
   32  this state may dispense up to a 72-hour supply of a medicinal
   33  drug to any patient of, or patient discharged from, an emergency
   34  department of a hospital located in that area which operates a
   35  Class II or Class III institutional pharmacy, provided that the
   36  physician who is treating the patient in such hospital’s
   37  emergency department, or who is treating the discharged patient,
   38  determines that the medicinal drug is warranted and that
   39  community pharmacy services are not readily accessible,
   40  geographically or otherwise, to the patient. Such dispensing
   41  from the emergency department to any patient, including a
   42  discharged patient, must be in accordance with the procedures of
   43  the hospital. For any such patient for whom a medicinal drug is
   44  warranted for a period to exceed 72 hours, an individual
   45  licensed to prescribe such drug shall dispense a 72-hour supply
   46  of such drug to the patient and shall provide the patient with a
   47  prescription for such drug for use after the initial 72-hour
   48  period.
   49         (c) The board may adopt rules necessary to implement carry
   50  out the provisions of this subsection.
   51         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
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   53  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   54  And the title is amended as follows:
   55         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   56  and insert:
   57                        A bill to be entitled                      
   58         An act relating to dispensing medicinal drugs;
   59         amending s. 465.019, F.S.; authorizing individuals
   60         licensed to prescribe medicinal drugs from certain
   61         institutional pharmacies to dispense a 48-hour supply,
   62         rather than a 24-hour supply, of such drugs to any
   63         patient of, or patient discharged from, an emergency
   64         department of certain hospitals under certain
   65         circumstances; authorizing such individuals to
   66         dispense a 72-hour supply of such drugs if a state of
   67         emergency has been declared in the area; authorizing
   68         such individuals to provide prescriptions for an
   69         additional supply of such drugs under certain
   70         circumstances; providing an effective date.