Bill Text: SC S0016 | 2019-2020 | 123rd General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Emergency prescription refills
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-03-26 - Act No. 117 [S0016 Detail]
Download: South_Carolina-2019-S0016-Comm_Sub.html
COMMITTEE REPORT
May 1, 2019
S. 16
S. Printed 5/1/19--H.
Read the first time January 30, 2019.
To whom was referred a Bill (S. 16) to amend Section 40-43-86(P) of the 1976 Code, relating to emergency refills of prescriptions by pharmacists, to increase the amount of a prescription that, etc., respectfully
That they have duly and carefully considered the same and recommend that the same do pass with amendment:
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Section 40-43-86(P)(4), as contained in SECTION 1, by deleting the item in its entirety and inserting:
/ (4) the pharmacist properly records the dispensing and labels the medication package as an emergency refill; and
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.
LEON HOWARD for Committee.
A BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 40-43-86(P) OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO EMERGENCY REFILLS OF PRESCRIPTIONS BY PHARMACISTS, TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF A PRESCRIPTION THAT MAY BE REFILLED WHEN AUTHORIZATION FROM THE PRESCRIBER IS NOT OBTAINABLE FROM A TEN-DAY SUPPLY TO A THIRTY-DAY SUPPLY, AND TO PROVIDE CONDITIONS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 40-43-86(P) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"(P) If a pharmacist receives a request for a prescription refill and the pharmacist is unable to obtain refill authorization from the prescriber, the pharmacist may dispense, once within a twelve-month period, an emergency refill of up to a ten-day fourteen-day supply of the prescribed medication if:
(1) the prescription is not for a controlled substance;
(2) the medication is essential to the maintenance of life or to the continuation of therapy;
(3) in the pharmacist's professional judgment, continuing the therapy for up to ten fourteen days will produce no undesirable health consequences or cause physical or mental discomfort;
(4) the pharmacist properly records the dispensing; and
(5) the dispensing pharmacist notifies the prescriber of the refill and the amount of the refill, not to exceed a ten-day fourteen-day supply, within a reasonable time, but no later than ten days after the once in twelve months refill dispensing.
In the event that a pharmacist is unable to dispense an emergency refill for the time period specified in this subsection due to the medication's packaging, the pharmacist is permitted to dispense up to a thirty-day quantity of the medication so long as the requirements contained in this subsection are otherwise met."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
