Bill Text: NH HB264 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishing a commission to study allowing pharmacists to prescribe or make available via protocol oral contraceptives and certain related medications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-04-26 - Signed by Governor Sununu 04/25/2017; Chapter 23; I. Sec. 2 eff. 12/1/2017 ; II. Rem. eff. 4/25/2017 [HB264 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2017-HB264-Introduced.html

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HB 264 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0632

01/09

 

HOUSE BILL 264

 

AN ACT making oral contraceptives available without a prescription.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Murphy, Hills. 7

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows pharmacies to dispense oral contraceptives to persons 18 years of age or older without a prescription.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0632

01/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT making oral contraceptives available without a prescription.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Section; Pharmacies; Oral Contraceptives.  Amend RSA 318 by inserting after section 47-j the following new section:

318:47-k  Pharmacies; Oral Contraceptives.

I.  Pharmacies, including mail-order pharmacies, may dispense oral contraceptives to persons 18 years of age or older without a prescription.  Such products shall only be dispensed by pharmacy employees, and shall not be accessible by the public without the assistance of a pharmacy employee.  The package shall be labeled as follows:  “WARNING:  Use of oral contraceptives carries the risk of side effects.  Consult your physician before use.”

II.  In this section, “oral contraceptive” means medication taken by mouth for the purpose of birth control such as pills containing estrogen or progesterone.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.