Bill Text: VA HB1424 | 2017 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Prescription drugs; purpose of labeling.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-07 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions [HB1424 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2017-HB1424-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §54.1-3408.01 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 54.1-3410.3 as follows:
§54.1-3408.01. Requirements for prescriptions.
A. The written prescription referred to in §54.1-3408 shall be written with ink or individually typed or printed. The prescription shall contain the name, address, and telephone number of the prescriber. A prescription for a controlled substance other than one controlled in Schedule VI shall also contain the federal controlled substances registration number assigned to the prescriber. The prescriber's information shall be either preprinted upon the prescription blank, electronically printed, typewritten, rubber stamped, or printed by hand.
The written prescription shall contain the first and last name
of the patient for whom the drug is prescribed
and the purpose for which the drug is prescribed. The
address of the patient shall either
be placed upon the written prescription either
by the prescriber or his agent, or
by the dispenser of the prescription. If not otherwise prohibited by law, the
dispenser may record the address of the patient in an electronic prescription
dispensing record for that patient in lieu of recording it on the prescription.
Each written prescription shall be dated as of, and signed by the prescriber
on, the day when issued. The prescription may be prepared by an agent for the
prescriber's signature.
This section shall not prohibit a prescriber from using preprinted prescriptions for drugs classified in Schedule VI if all requirements concerning dates, signatures, and other information specified above are otherwise fulfilled.
No written prescription order form shall include more than one
prescription. However, this provision shall not apply (i) to prescriptions
written as chart orders for patients in hospitals and long-term-care
facilities, patients receiving home infusion services,
or hospice patients, or; (ii) to a prescription
ordered through a pharmacy operated by or for the Department of Corrections or
the Department of Juvenile Justice, the central pharmacy of the Department of
Health, or the central outpatient pharmacy operated by the Department of
Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; or (iii) to prescriptions written
for patients residing in adult and juvenile detention centers, local or
regional jails, or work release centers operated by the Department of
Corrections.
B. Prescribers' orders, whether written as chart orders or
prescriptions, for Schedules II, III, IV, and V controlled drugs to be
administered to (i) patients or residents of long-term care facilities served
by a Virginia pharmacy from a remote location or (ii) patients receiving
parenteral, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous,
or intraspinal infusion therapy and served by a home infusion pharmacy from a
remote location,
may be transmitted to that remote pharmacy by an electronic communications
device over telephone lines which send the exact image to the receiver in hard
copy form, and such facsimile copy shall be treated as a valid original
prescription order. If the order is for a radiopharmaceutical, a physician
authorized by state or federal law to possess and administer medical
radioactive materials may authorize a nuclear medicine technologist to transmit
a prescriber's verbal or written orders for radiopharmaceuticals.
C. The oral prescription referred to in §54.1-3408 shall be transmitted to the pharmacy of the patient's choice by the prescriber or his authorized agent. For the purposes of this section, an authorized agent of the prescriber shall be an employee of the prescriber who is under his immediate and personal supervision, or if not an employee, an individual who holds a valid license allowing the administration or dispensing of drugs and who is specifically directed by the prescriber.
§54.1-3410.3. Labeling of dispensed drugs; purpose.
Pursuant to regulations adopted by the Board, any drug dispensed pursuant to a prescription shall include on the label of the container in which the dispensed drug is placed the purpose for which the drug has been prescribed.
