Bill Text: TX SB300 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a pharmacist's authority to refuse to dispense a drug.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to State Affairs [SB300 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB300-Introduced.html
88R2850 SCP-D | ||
By: Hall | S.B. No. 300 |
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relating to a pharmacist's authority to refuse to dispense a drug. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 551.006, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 551.006. [ |
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(a) In this section, "emergency contraceptive" means a drug | ||
containing an elevated dose of hormones that: | ||
(1) is used postcoitally; | ||
(2) prevents pregnancy by preventing fertilization of | ||
an egg or preventing implantation of a fertilized egg in a uterus; | ||
and | ||
(3) is approved by the United States Food and Drug | ||
Administration. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist may refuse | ||
to dispense a drug only if the drug is: | ||
(1) an abortion-inducing drug or emergency | ||
contraceptive; or | ||
(2) a controlled substance listed in Schedules II | ||
through V as established under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, | ||
and the pharmacist reasonably suspects the drug will be misused | ||
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |