Bill Text: IL HB2730 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Requires pharmacists to include the manufacturer's lot number of dispensed drugs in their records and on labeling of prescriptions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB2730 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB2730-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Sections 18 and 22 as follows:
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6 | (225 ILCS 85/18) (from Ch. 111, par. 4138)
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7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
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8 | Sec. 18. Record retention. Except as provided in subsection | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | (b), there shall be kept in every drugstore or
pharmacy a | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | suitable
book, file, or electronic record keeping system in | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | which shall be preserved
for a period of not less than 5 years | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | the original, or an exact, unalterable image, of every written
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13 | prescription and the original transcript or copy of every | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | verbal prescription
filled, compounded, or dispensed, in such | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | pharmacy; and such book or
file of prescriptions shall at all | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | reasonable times be open to inspection
to the pharmacy | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | coordinator and the duly authorized agents or
employees of the | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Department.
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19 | Every prescription filled or refilled shall contain the
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20 | unique identifiers
of the persons
authorized to practice
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21 | pharmacy under the provision of this Act who fills or refills | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | the
prescription and the manufacturer's lot number of the | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | dispensed drug .
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1 | Records kept pursuant to this Section may be maintained in | ||||||
2 | an alternative
data retention system, such as a direct digital | ||||||
3 | imaging system, provided that:
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4 | (1) the records maintained in the alternative data | ||||||
5 | retention system
contain all of the information required in | ||||||
6 | a manual record;
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7 | (2) the data processing system is capable of producing | ||||||
8 | a hard copy of the
electronic record on the request of the | ||||||
9 | Board, its representative, or other
authorized local, | ||||||
10 | State, or federal law enforcement or regulatory agency;
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11 | (3) the digital images are recorded and stored only by | ||||||
12 | means of a
technology that does not allow subsequent | ||||||
13 | revision or replacement of the
images; and
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14 | (4) the prescriptions may be retained in written form | ||||||
15 | or recorded in a data processing system, provided that such | ||||||
16 | order can be produced in printed form upon lawful request.
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17 | As used in this Section, "digital imaging system" means a | ||||||
18 | system, including
people, machines, methods of organization, | ||||||
19 | and procedures, that provides input,
storage, processing, | ||||||
20 | communications, output, and control functions for
digitized
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21 | representations of original prescription records.
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22 | Inpatient drug orders may be maintained
within an | ||||||
23 | institution in a manner approved by the Department.
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24 | (Source: P.A. 94-84, eff. 6-28-05; 95-689, eff. 10-29-07.)
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25 | (225 ILCS 85/22) (from Ch. 111, par. 4142)
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1 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
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2 | Sec. 22. Except only in the case of a drug, medicine or | ||||||
3 | poison
which is lawfully sold or dispensed, at retail, in the | ||||||
4 | original and
unbroken package of the manufacturer, packer, or | ||||||
5 | distributor thereof,
and which package bears the original label | ||||||
6 | thereon showing the name
and address of the manufacturer, | ||||||
7 | packer, or distributor thereof, and
the name of the drug, | ||||||
8 | medicine, or poison therein contained, and the
directions for | ||||||
9 | its use, no person shall sell or dispense, at retail,
any drug, | ||||||
10 | medicine, or poison, without affixing to the box, bottle,
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11 | vessel, or package containing the same, a label bearing the | ||||||
12 | name of
the article distinctly shown, and the directions for | ||||||
13 | its use, with
the name and address of the pharmacy wherein the | ||||||
14 | same is sold or dispensed.
However, in the case of a drug, | ||||||
15 | medicine, or poison which is sold or
dispensed pursuant to a | ||||||
16 | prescription of a physician licensed to practice
medicine in | ||||||
17 | all of its branches, licensed dentist, licensed veterinarian,
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18 | licensed podiatrist, or therapeutically or diagnostically | ||||||
19 | certified
optometrist authorized by law to prescribe drugs or | ||||||
20 | medicines or poisons,
the label affixed to the box, bottle, | ||||||
21 | vessel, or package containing the
same shall show: (a) the name | ||||||
22 | and address of the pharmacy
wherein the same is sold or | ||||||
23 | dispensed; (b) the name or initials of
the person, authorized | ||||||
24 | to practice pharmacy under the provisions of
this Act, selling | ||||||
25 | or dispensing the same, (c) the date on which such
prescription | ||||||
26 | was filled; (d) the name of the patient; (e) the serial
number |
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1 | of such prescription as filed in the prescription files; (f)
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2 | the last name of the practitioner who prescribed such | ||||||
3 | prescriptions;
(g) the directions for use thereof as contained | ||||||
4 | in such prescription;
and (h) the proprietary name or names or | ||||||
5 | the established name or
names of the drugs ; (i) the | ||||||
6 | manufacturer's lot number of the dispensed drug; and (j) , the | ||||||
7 | dosage and quantity, except as otherwise authorized
by | ||||||
8 | regulation of the Department.
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9 | (Source: P.A. 95-689, eff. 10-29-07.)
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