Bill Text: FL H0857 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prescription Labeling

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Health and Human Services Quality Subcommittee [H0857 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-H0857-Introduced.html

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HB 857

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to prescription labeling; amending s.
3	456.42, F.S.; revising provisions specifying the
4	information required to be included in written or
5	electronically generated prescriptions for medicinal
6	drugs; amending s. 465.186, F.S.; revising provisions
7	specifying the information required to be included on
8	the label of a container containing a medicinal drug;
9	providing an effective date.
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11	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13	Section 1.  Section 456.42, Florida Statutes, is amended to
14	read:
15	456.42  Written prescriptions for medicinal drugs.-
16	(1)  A written prescription for a medicinal drug issued by
17	a health care practitioner licensed by law to prescribe such
18	drug must:
19	(a)  Be legibly printed or typed so as to be capable of
20	being understood by the pharmacist filling the prescription.;
21	(b)  Include must contain the name of the prescribing
22	practitioner.,
23	(c)  Include the name and strength of the drug prescribed.,
24	(d)  Include the quantity of the drug prescribed.,
25	(e)  Include a legible, clear statement of the purpose for
26	which the drug is being prescribed.
27	(f)  Include and the directions for use of the drug.;
28	(g)  must Be dated.; and
29	(h)  must Be signed by the prescribing practitioner on the
30	day when issued.
31	(2)  However, A prescription that is electronically
32	generated and transmitted must:
33	(a)  Include contain the name of the prescribing
34	practitioner.,
35	(b)  Include the name and strength of the drug prescribed.,
36	(c)  Include the quantity of the drug prescribed in
37	numerical format.,
38	(d)  Include a legible, clear statement of the purpose for
39	which the drug is being prescribed. and
40	(e)  Include the directions for use of the drug. and must
41	(f)  Be dated and signed by the prescribing practitioner
42	only on the day issued, which signature may be in an electronic
43	format as defined in s. 668.003(4).
44	(3)(2)  A written prescription for a controlled substance
45	listed in chapter 893 must have the quantity of the drug
46	prescribed in both textual and numerical formats, must be dated
47	with the abbreviated month written out on the face of the
48	prescription, and must be either written on a standardized
49	counterfeit-proof prescription pad produced by a vendor approved
50	by the department or electronically prescribed as that term is
51	used in s. 408.0611. As a condition of being an approved vendor,
52	a prescription pad vendor must submit a monthly report to the
53	department which, at a minimum, documents the number of
54	prescription pads sold and identifies the purchasers. The
55	department may, by rule, require the reporting of additional
56	information.
57	Section 2.  Paragraph (g) of subsection (3) of section
58	465.186, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as paragraph (h), and
59	a new paragraph (g) is added to that subsection to read:
60	465.186  Pharmacist's order for medicinal drugs; dispensing
61	procedure; development of formulary.-
62	(3)  Affixed to the container containing a medicinal drug
63	dispensed pursuant to this section shall be a label bearing the
64	following information:
65	(g)  A legible, clear statement of the purpose for which
66	the drug is being prescribed.
67	Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.