Rx Drug Assistance
Prescription Drug Assistance (SR)
| Bills | Committee | Last action | Date |
| HB 173 - Pogge - Influenza vaccine; certified emergency medical services personnel may administer and dispense. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0179) | 03/29/10 |
| notes: Provides that certified emergency medical services personnel who are employed by or affiliated with a licensed emergency medical services agency and who have received the training necessary to safely administer or dispense necessary drugs may administer skin tests for influenza or tuberculosis in nonemergency settings to public safety personnel and, upon the request of the local health director, the general public. | |||
| HB 286 - Dance - Schedule VI prescriptions; allows practitioner to prescribe if there is an urgency for treatment. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0074) | 03/09/10 |
| notes: Allows a practitioner to prescribe Schedule VI controlled substances, consistent with recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health, without having performed the required patient examination, when, in his professional judgment, he deems there is urgency to begin treatment or to prevent the transmission of a communicable disease to close contacts of a diagnosed patient with whom the practitioner meets all other requirements of a bona fide practitioner-patient. | |||
| HB 953 - Jones - Schedule II, III, IV, and V drugs; adds various controlled substances to list. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) | 04/11/10 |
| notes: Adds tapentadol to Schedule II; boldione, desoxymethyltestosterone (madol), and 19-nor-4,9(10)-androstadeienedione (estra-4,9(10)-diene-3,17-dione) to Schedule III; fospropofol to Schedule IV, and lacosamide to Schedule V of the drug control act. | |||
| HB 964 - Lohr - Schedule II drugs; pharmacist shall require identification in filling prescriptions. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0193) | 04/07/10 |
| notes: Requires that a pharmacist filling a valid prescription for a Schedule II drug shall require proof of identification of the person filling the prescription, regardless of whether the person is the patient for whom the drug is prescribed. If the person is not the patient for whom the drug is prescribed, the pharmacist shall record the full name and current address of the person. | |||
| HB 1166 - Phillips - Controlled substances; unlawfully obtaining or attempting to obtain, report required. | (H) Committee for Courts of Justice (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0185) | 03/29/10 |
| notes: Provides that it shall be a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly or intentionally deceive a prescriber in order to obtain a controlled substance or prescription for a controlled substance, or to fail to disclose to a prescriber from whom the person obtains or attempts to obtain a controlled substance or prescription for a controlled substance that the person has received the same or a similar controlled substance or a prescription for the same or a similar controlled substance within the previous 30 days. The bill requires any person authorized to prescribe, dispense, or administer controlled substances, who has reason to believe that a person has failed to make the required report, to report the incident to the local law-enforcement agency within three business days, and provides that persons making a report to a law-enforcement agency shall be immune from civil liability. | |||
| HB 1375 - Garrett - Prescription drug benefits; replace obsolete publications from list of standard reference compendia. | (H) Committee on Commerce and Labor (S) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) | 04/11/10 |
| notes: Denial of benefits for certain prescription drugs prohibited. | |||
| HJ 90 - O'Bannon - Nursing homes; DHP to study advisability of permitting use of medication aides. | (H) Committee on Rules (S) Committee on Rules | (H) Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ90ER) | 03/05/10 |
| notes: Requests that the Department of Health Professions study the advisability of permitting the use of medication aides to administer medications that would normally be self-administered to residents of nursing homes. | |||
| SB 260 - Lucas - Mental health and substance abuse providers; background checks. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (S) Failed to pass in Senate | 03/14/10 |
| notes:
Allows private providers licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to hire as a direct care employee in adult substance abuse or mental health treatment programs a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor violation relating to assault and battery against a family or household member as long as such offense was substantially related to substance abuse or mental illness and the applicant has been rehabilitated. Alternatively, the bill authorizes private providers to hire as a direct care employee persons who have been convicted of not more than one misdemeanor violation relating to assault and battery against a family or household member if 10 years have elapsed since the conviction, unless the person committed the offense while employed in a direct consumer care position. The bill also makes a technical change that clarifies the existing law that (i) community service boards and private providers may hire as a direct care employee persons who have been convicted of not more than one misdemeanor violation relating to assault and battery and (ii) community service boards may hire as a direct care employee persons who have been convicted of not more than one misdemeanor violation relating to assault and battery of a family or household member, provided, however, that in the case of any conviction referenced in clause (i) or (ii), 10 years have elapsed since the conviction, and the person did no commit the offense while employed in a direct consumer care position. |
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| SB 706 - Houck - Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance abuse services. | (H) Committee on Commerce and Labor (S) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) | 04/12/10 |
| notes: Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance abuse services. Removes the benefit limitations applicable to coverage for inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient mental health and substance abuse services under large group health insurance policies. Under this measure, coverage for such services under large group policies will not be more restrictive than for other illness. The existing limitations will continue to apply to individual and small group policies. | |||