Bill Text: HI HB2464 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Practice of Pharmacy; Vaccination Task Force
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-18 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN. [HB2464 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2464-Amended.html
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PRACTICE OF PHARMACY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 461-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "practice of pharmacy" to read as follows:
""Practice of pharmacy" means:
(1) The interpretation and evaluation of prescription
orders; the compounding, dispensing, and labeling of drugs and devices (except
labeling by a manufacturer, packer, or distributor of nonprescription drugs and
commercially legend drugs and devices); the participation in drug selection and
drug utilization reviews; the proper and safe storage of drugs and devices and
the maintenance of proper records [therefore;] therefor; the
responsibility for advising when necessary or where regulated, of therapeutic
values, content, hazards, and use of drugs and devices;
(2) Performing the following procedures or functions as part of the care provided by and in concurrence with a "health care facility" and "health care service" as defined in section 323D-2, or a "pharmacy" or a licensed physician, or a "managed care plan" as defined in section 432E-1, in accordance with policies, procedures, or protocols developed collaboratively by health professionals, including physicians and surgeons, pharmacists, and registered nurses, and for which a pharmacist has received appropriate training required by these policies, procedures, or protocols:
(A) Ordering or performing routine drug therapy related patient assessment procedures;
(B) Ordering drug therapy related laboratory tests;
(C) Initiating emergency contraception oral drug therapy in accordance with a written collaborative agreement approved by the board, between a licensed physician and a pharmacist who has received appropriate training that includes programs approved by the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE), curriculum-based programs from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy, state or local health department programs, or programs recognized by the board of pharmacy;
(D) Administering drugs orally, topically, by intranasal delivery, or by injection, pursuant to the patient's licensed physician's order, by a pharmacist having appropriate training that includes programs approved by the ACPE, curriculum-based programs from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy, state or local health department programs, or programs recognized by the board of pharmacy;
(E) Administering immunizations orally, by injection, or by intranasal delivery, to persons at least nine years of age with parental consent and contingent upon the governor's determination of a public health necessity or eighteen years of age or older, by a pharmacist having appropriate training that includes programs approved by the ACPE, curriculum-based programs from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy, state or local health department programs, or programs recognized by the board of pharmacy;
(F) As authorized by a licensed physician's written instructions, initiating or adjusting the drug regimen of a patient pursuant to an order or authorization made by the patient's licensed physician and related to the condition for which the patient has been seen by the licensed physician; provided that the pharmacist shall issue written notification to the patient's licensed physician or enter the appropriate information in an electronic patient record system shared by the licensed physician, within twenty-four hours;
(G) Transmitting a valid prescription to another pharmacist for the purpose of filling or dispensing; or
(H) Providing consultation, information, or education to patients and health care professionals based on the pharmacist's training and for which no other licensure is required;
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(3) The offering or performing of those acts, services, operations, or transactions necessary in the conduct, operation, management, and control of pharmacy."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on June 30, 2020; provided that the amendments made to the definition of "practice of pharmacy" in section 461-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by this Act shall not be repealed when section 461-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is reenacted on July 1, 2010, pursuant to section 11 of Act 190, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004.
Report Title:
Practice of Pharmacy; Definition
Description:
Amends the definition of "practice of pharmacy" by allowing immunizations to be administered to persons who are at least nine years of age with parental consent contingent upon the Governor's determination of a public health necessity. Effective July 1, 2020. (HB2464 HD2)
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