Bill Text: IL SB1790 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that a pharmacist may refill a patient's prescription without prescriber authorization if the pharmacist is unable to contact the prescriber after reasonable effort, a failure to refill the prescription may result in an interruption of therapeutic regimen or create patient suffering, the pharmacist informs the prescriber at the earliest convenience of the emergency refills, and the prescription is not for a controlled substance. Provides that prescriptions may be refilled pursuant to the provisions for a period of time reasonably necessary for the pharmacist to secure prescriber authorization. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-18 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0237 [SB1790 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB1790-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB1790 Introduced 2/9/2017, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 85/15.3 new
Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that a pharmacist may refill a patient's prescription without prescriber authorization if the pharmacist is unable to contact the prescriber after reasonable effort, a failure to refill the prescription may result in an interruption of therapeutic regimen or create patient suffering, the pharmacist informs the prescriber at the earliest convenience of the emergency refills, and the prescription is not for a controlled substance. Provides that prescriptions may be refilled pursuant to the provisions for a period of time reasonably necessary for the pharmacist to secure prescriber authorization. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act is amended by adding
Section 15.3 as follows:
(225 ILCS 85/15.3 new)
Sec. 15.3. Emergency prescription refills.
(a) A pharmacist may exercise professional judgment by
refilling a prescription without prescriber authorization if
all of the following are true:
(1) the pharmacist is unable to contact the prescriber
after reasonable effort;
(2) a failure to refill the prescription may result in
an interruption of therapeutic regimen or create patient
suffering;
(3) the pharmacist informs the prescriber at the
earliest convenience of the emergency refill; and
(4) the prescription is not for a controlled substance.
(b) Prescriptions may be refilled pursuant to subsection
(a) for a period of time reasonably necessary for the
pharmacist to secure prescriber authorization.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

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becoming law.