Florida Senate - 2016                                     SB 964
       
       
        
       By Senator Grimsley
       
       
       
       
       
       21-01381-16                                            2016964__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the prescription drug monitoring
    3         program; amending s. 893.055, F.S.; providing that
    4         certain acts of dispensing controlled substances in
    5         specified facilities are not required to be reported
    6         to the prescription drug monitoring program; providing
    7         an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (g) is added to subsection (5) of
   12  section 893.055, Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         893.055 Prescription drug monitoring program.—
   14         (5) When the following acts of dispensing or administering
   15  occur, the following are exempt from reporting under this
   16  section for that specific act of dispensing or administration:
   17         (g) A rehabilitative hospital, assisted living facility, or
   18  nursing home dispensing a certain dosage of a controlled
   19  substance, as needed, to a patient as ordered by the patient’s
   20  treating physician.
   21         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.