Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1124
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/20/2019           .                                
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       The Committee on Innovation, Industry, and Technology (Harrell)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 15 - 35
    4  and insert:
    5         (4)(a) Medicinal drugs shall be dispensed in an
    6  institutional pharmacy to outpatients only when that institution
    7  has secured a community pharmacy permit from the department.
    8  However, an individual licensed to prescribe medicinal drugs in
    9  this state may dispense up to a 48-hour 24-hour supply of a
   10  medicinal drug to any patient of, or patient discharged from, an
   11  emergency department of a hospital that operates a Class II or
   12  Class III institutional pharmacy, provided that the physician
   13  who is treating the patient in such hospital’s emergency
   14  department, or who is treating the discharged patient,
   15  determines that the medicinal drug is warranted and that
   16  community pharmacy services are not readily accessible,
   17  geographically or otherwise, to the patient. Such dispensing
   18  from the emergency department to any patient, including a
   19  discharged patient, must be in accordance with the procedures of
   20  the hospital. For any such patient for whom a medicinal drug is
   21  warranted for a period to exceed 48 24 hours, an individual
   22  licensed to prescribe such drug must dispense a 48-hour 24-hour
   23  supply of such drug to the patient and must provide the patient
   24  with a prescription for such drug for use after the initial 48
   25  hour 24-hour period. The board may adopt rules necessary to
   26  carry out the provisions of this subsection.
   27         (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), if a state of emergency
   28  has been declared for an area of the state pursuant to s.
   29  252.36, an individual licensed to prescribe medicinal drugs in
   30  this state may dispense up to a 72-hour supply of a medicinal
   31  drug to any patient of, or patient discharged from, an emergency
   32  department of a hospital located in that area which operates a
   33  Class II or Class III institutional pharmacy, provided that the
   34  physician who is treating the patient in such hospital’s
   35  emergency department, or who is treating the discharged patient,
   36  determines that the medicinal drug is warranted and that
   37  community pharmacy services are not readily accessible,
   38  geographically or otherwise, to the patient. Such dispensing
   39  from the emergency department to any patient, including a
   40  discharged patient, must be in accordance with the procedures of
   41  the hospital. For any such patient for whom a medicinal drug is
   42  warranted for a period to exceed 72 hours, an individual
   43  licensed to prescribe such drug shall dispense a 72-hour supply
   44  of such drug to the patient and shall provide the patient with a
   45  prescription for such drug for use after the initial 72-hour
   46  period.
   47         (c) The board may adopt rules to implement this subsection.
   48  
   49  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   50  And the title is amended as follows:
   51         Delete line 7
   52  and insert:
   53         under certain circumstances; authorizing such
   54         individuals to dispense a 72-hour supply if a state of
   55         emergency has been declared in the area; authorizing
   56         such individuals to provide prescriptions for an
   57         additional supply of such drugs; authorizing the Board
   58         of Pharmacy to adopt rules; providing an effective