Bill Text: CA AB782 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pharmacies: compounding.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2024-01-29 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB782 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB782-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  June 27, 2023

Amended  IN  Senate  June 19, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 782

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Introduced by Assembly Member Lackey McKinnor
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Irwin and Lackey)

February 13, 2023

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An act to amend Section 4126.8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 782, as amended, Lackey McKinnor. Pharmacies: compounding.

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, requires the California State Board of Pharmacy to license and regulate the practice of pharmacy by pharmacists and pharmacy corporations in this state. Existing law prohibits a pharmacy from compounding sterile drug products unless the pharmacy has obtained a sterile compounding pharmacy license from the board. Existing law requires the compounding of drug preparations by a pharmacy for furnishing, distribution, or use to be consistent with standards established in the pharmacy compounding chapters of the current version of the United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary, including relevant testing and quality assurance. Existing law authorizes the board to adopt regulations to impose additional standards for compounding drug preparations.

This bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, specify that compounding does not include reconstitution of a drug pursuant to a manufacturer’s directions, the sole act of tablet splitting or crushing, capsule opening, or the addition of a flavoring agent to enhance palatability.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 4126.8 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

4126.8.

 (a)  The compounding of drug preparations by a pharmacy for furnishing, distribution, distribution, furnishing, or use in this state shall be consistent with standards established in the pharmacy compounding chapters of the current version of the United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary, including relevant testing and quality assurance. The board may adopt regulations to impose additional standards for compounding drug preparations.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), “compounding” does not include reconstitution of a drug pursuant to a manufacturer’s directions, the sole act of tablet splitting or crushing, capsule opening, or the addition of a flavoring agent to enhance palatability.