Bill Text: IL HB3647 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Requires a pharmacy to offer a kiosk to dispose of prescription and over-the-counter medications free of charge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3647 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB3647-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulations.
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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 | Section 15 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 85/15) (from Ch. 111, par. 4135)
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| 7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2020)
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| 8 | Sec. 15. Pharmacy requirements. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | (1) It shall be unlawful
for the owner of any pharmacy, as | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | defined in this Act, to operate or conduct
the same, or to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | allow the same to be
operated or conducted, unless:
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| 12 | (a) It has a licensed pharmacist, authorized to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | practice pharmacy
in this State under the provisions of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | this Act, on duty whenever the
practice of pharmacy is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | conducted;
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| 16 | (b) Security provisions for all drugs and devices, as | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | determined by
rule of the Department, are provided during | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | the absence from the licensed
pharmacy of all licensed | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | pharmacists. Maintenance of security provisions
is the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | responsibility of the licensed pharmacist in charge;
and
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| 21 | (c) The pharmacy is licensed under this Act to conduct | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | the practice of pharmacy in any and all forms from the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | physical address of the pharmacy's primary inventory where | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | U.S. mail is delivered. If a facility, company, or | ||||||
| 2 | organization operates multiple pharmacies from multiple | ||||||
| 3 | physical addresses, a separate pharmacy license is | ||||||
| 4 | required for each different physical address.
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| 5 | (2) The Department may allow a pharmacy that is not located | ||||||
| 6 | at the same location as its home pharmacy and at which pharmacy | ||||||
| 7 | services are provided during an emergency situation, as defined | ||||||
| 8 | by rule, to be operated as an emergency remote pharmacy. An | ||||||
| 9 | emergency remote pharmacy operating under this subsection (2) | ||||||
| 10 | shall operate under the license of the home pharmacy.
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| 11 | (3) The Secretary may waive the requirement for a | ||||||
| 12 | pharmacist to be on duty
at all times for State facilities not | ||||||
| 13 | treating human ailments. This waiver of the requirement remains | ||||||
| 14 | in effect until it is rescinded by the Secretary and the | ||||||
| 15 | Department provides written notice of the rescission to the | ||||||
| 16 | State facility.
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| 17 | (4) It shall be unlawful for any person, who is not a | ||||||
| 18 | licensed pharmacy
or health care facility, to purport to be | ||||||
| 19 | such or to use in name, title,
or sign designating, or in | ||||||
| 20 | connection with that place of business,
any of the words: | ||||||
| 21 | "pharmacy", "pharmacist", "pharmacy department",
"apothecary", | ||||||
| 22 | "druggist", "drug", "drugs", "medicines", "medicine store",
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| 23 | "drug sundries", "prescriptions filled", or any list of words | ||||||
| 24 | indicating
that drugs are compounded or sold to the lay public, | ||||||
| 25 | or prescriptions
are dispensed therein. Each day during which, | ||||||
| 26 | or a part which, such
representation is made or appears or such | ||||||
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| 1 | a sign is allowed to remain
upon or in such a place of business | ||||||
| 2 | shall constitute a separate offense
under this Act.
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| 3 | (5) The holder of any license shall conspicuously
display | ||||||
| 4 | it in the pharmacy in which he is engaged in the practice of
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| 5 | pharmacy. The pharmacist in charge shall conspicuously
display | ||||||
| 6 | his name in such pharmacy. The pharmacy license shall also
be | ||||||
| 7 | conspicuously displayed.
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| 8 | (6) A pharmacy shall offer a kiosk to dispose of | ||||||
| 9 | prescription and over-the-counter medications free of charge. | ||||||
| 10 | (Source: P.A. 100-497, eff. 9-8-17.)
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