Bill Text: CA SB393 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prescription drugs: procurement: false representation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB393 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB393-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 393	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Walters

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to amend Section 377 of the Penal Code, relating to
prescription drugs.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 393, as introduced, Walters. Prescription drugs: procurement:
false representation.
   Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any person, in order to
obtain any drug that can be lawfully dispensed by a pharmacist only
on prescription, to falsely represent that he or she is a physician
or other person who can lawfully prescribe the drug in a telephone
communication with a pharmacist.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 377 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   377.  Every person who, in order to obtain for himself  or
herself  or  for  another person,  any drug
that can be lawfully dispensed by a pharmacist only on prescription,
falsely represents himself  or herself  to be a physician or
other person who can lawfully prescribe  such  
that  drug, or falsely represents that he  or she  is
acting on behalf of a person who can lawfully prescribe  such
  that  drug, in a telephone communication with a
pharmacist, is guilty of a misdemeanor.