Bill Text: NH SB483 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relative to procedures for dispensing controlled drugs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-09-20 - Executive Session: 10/16/2018 01:00 PM Legislative Office Building205 [SB483 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2018-SB483-Amended.html
SB 483 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
02/15/2018 0425s
2018 SESSION
18-3024
10/01
SENATE BILL 483
AN ACT relative to procedures for dispensing controlled drugs.
SPONSORS: Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Rep. Cahill, Rock. 17; Rep. P. Gordon, Rock. 29
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
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ANALYSIS
This bill establishes a procedure for patients or their authorized representatives to pick up a prescription for a schedule II-IV controlled drug at a pharmacy.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
02/15/2018 0425s 18-3024
10/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
AN ACT relative to procedures for dispensing controlled drugs.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Pharmacies; Procedures for Dispensing Controlled Drugs. Amend RSA 318 by inserting after section 47-k the following new section:
318:47-l Procedures for Dispensing Controlled Drugs. Only a patient for whom a prescription was written, the owner of an animal for which a prescription was written, or an authorized representative of the patient or animal owner, as defined in rules adopted by the pharmacy board, after consultation with the commissioner of health and human services, may pick up a prescription for a schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance. Prior to dispensing a prescription for a schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance to a patient not personally known to the pharmacist, the pharmacy technician, or the pharmacy intern, the pharmacist, pharmacy technician, or pharmacy intern shall require the individual receiving the drug to provide a signature and show valid and current government-issued photographic identification as evidence that the individual is the patient for whom the prescription was written, the owner of the animal for which the prescription was written, or the authorized representative of the patient or animal owner.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
