Bill Text: CT HB05359 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 5359 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Requiring Pharmacies To Verify The Identity Of Persons Making Telephonic Prescription Requests.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-01 - Public Hearing 03/06 [HB05359 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05359-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 5359*
*February Session, 2012*		LCO No. 1581
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Referred to Committee on General Law
Introduced by:
(GL )

AN ACT REQUIRING PHARMACIES TO VERIFY THE IDENTITY OF PERSONS MAKING TELEPHONIC PRESCRIPTION REQUESTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2012) A pharmacy shall not accept a telephonic request for the dispensing of a prescription unless a duly authorized agent of such pharmacy verifies the person making such request is a prescribing practitioner authorized pursuant to chapter 400j of the general statutes to make such requests.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2012	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To require pharmacies to verify the identity of persons making prescription requests.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]