Bill Text: FL S1438 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prescription Labeling
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Health Regulation [S1438 Detail]
Download: Florida-2012-S1438-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2012 SB 1438
By Senator Braynon
33-01400-12 20121438__
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.
10
11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
12
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 a
17 health care practitioner licensed by law to prescribe such drug
18 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 the
66 drug is being prescribed.
67 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
