Bill Text: VA SB841 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Opioid treatment programs; dispensing, medications from mobile units.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-02 - Referred to Committee on Education and Health [SB841 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2025-SB841-Introduced.html
2025 SESSION
INTRODUCED
25102177D
SENATE BILL NO. 841
Offered January 8, 2025
Prefiled January 2, 2025
A BILL to direct the Board of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop a process by which opioid treatment programs can apply for and receive the necessary permissions to dispense opioid use disorder treatment medications from mobile units; report.
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Patron—Favola
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Referred to Committee on Education and Health
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. The Board of Pharmacy (the Board) shall, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, develop and implement a process by which opioid treatment programs can apply for and receive the necessary permissions and waivers to allow dispensing of opioid use disorder treatment medications from mobile units. The Board shall submit a report on the status of and any barriers to the development and implementation of the process to the Joint Commission on Health Care by November 1, 2025.
