Bill Amendment: FL S0516 | 2024 | Regular Session
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: Emergency Refills of Insulin and Insulin-related Supplies or Equipment
Status: 2024-03-05 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 201 [S0516 Detail]
Download: Florida-2024-S0516-Senate_Committee_Amendment_701874.html
Bill Title: Emergency Refills of Insulin and Insulin-related Supplies or Equipment
Status: 2024-03-05 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 201 [S0516 Detail]
Download: Florida-2024-S0516-Senate_Committee_Amendment_701874.html
Florida Senate - 2024 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 516 Ì701874:Î701874 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Health Policy (Rodriguez) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Delete everything after the enacting clause 4 and insert: 5 Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 465.0275, Florida 6 Statutes, is amended to read: 7 465.0275 Emergency prescription refill.— 8 (1) In the event a pharmacist receives a request for a 9 prescription refill and the pharmacist is unable to readily 10 obtain refill authorization from the prescriber, the pharmacist 11 may dispense: 12 (a) A one-time emergency refill of up to a 72-hour supply 13 of the prescribed medication; or 14 (b) AnA one-timeemergency refill ofone vialofinsulin 15 and insulin-related supplies or equipment to treat diabetes 16 mellitus, not to exceed three nonconsecutive times per calendar 17 year. 18 Section 2. Subsection (3) of section 893.04, Florida 19 Statutes, is amended to read: 20 893.04 Pharmacist and practitioner.— 21 (3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a pharmacist may 22 dispense a one-time emergency refill of up to a 72-hour supply 23 of the prescribed medication for any medicinal drug other than a 24 medicinal drug listed in Schedule II, or an emergency refillup25to one vialof insulin and insulin-related supplies or equipment 26 to treat diabetes mellitus, not to exceed three nonconsecutive 27 times per calendar year, in compliance with s. 465.0275. 28 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024. 29 30 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 31 And the title is amended as follows: 32 Delete everything before the enacting clause 33 and insert: 34 A bill to be entitled 35 An act relating to emergency refills of insulin and 36 insulin-related supplies or equipment; amending s. 37 465.0275, F.S.; authorizing pharmacists to dispense an 38 emergency refill of insulin and insulin-related 39 supplies or equipment a specified number of times per 40 year; amending s. 893.04, F.S.; conforming a provision 41 to changes made by the act; providing an effective 42 date.