Bill Text: HI HB2526 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-20 - Re-Referred to CPH. [HB2526 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-HB2526-Amended.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HEALTH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 328, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part I to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§328- Customized patient medication package. (a)
A pharmacy may provide a customized patient medication package to any
patient of an institutional facility or any member of the general public;
provided that:
(1) The pharmacy
has obtained the consent of the patient, patient's caregiver, patient's
guardian, or prescribing practitioner;
(2) The consent is
accompanied by the patient's current prescription; and
(3) The customized
patient medication package meets the requirements of section 328-16.
(b) As used in this
section:
"Customized patient
medication package" means a package that is prepared by a pharmacist for a
specific patient and contains one or more prescribed solid oral dosage forms.
"Institutional
facility" has the same meaning as in section 461-1.
"Pharmacist" has the
same meaning as "registered pharmacist" in section 461-1.
"Pharmacy" has the same
meaning as in section 461-1."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000.
Report Title:
Prescription Drugs; Pharmacy; Customized Patient Medication Packages
Description:
Authorizes a pharmacy to provide a customized patient medication package to any patient of an institutional facility or any member of the general public upon consent, with a valid prescription, and in compliance with labeling and dispensing requirements. (HB2526 HD1)
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