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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                               Bill No. CS/HB 1467

    Amendment No. 5 (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Gay offered the following:

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13         Amendment to Amendment (515085) (with title amendment) 

14         On page 83, lines 20 through 29,

15  remove from the amendment:  all of said lines

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17  and insert in lieu thereof:

18         Section 55.  Subsection (12) of section 465.003,

19  Florida Statutes, is amended, subsections (4) through (14) of

20  said section are renumbered as subsections (5) through (15),

21  respectively, and a new subsection (4) is added to said

22  section, to read:

23         465.003  Definitions.--As used in this chapter, the

24  term:

25         (4)  "Data communication device" means an electronic

26  device that receives electronic information from one source

27  and transmits or routes it to another, including, but not

28  limited to, any such bridge, router, switch, or gateway.

29         (13)(12)  "Practice of the profession of pharmacy"

30  includes compounding, dispensing, and consulting concerning

31  contents, therapeutic values, and uses of any medicinal drug;

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 1  and consulting concerning therapeutic values and interactions

 2  of patent or proprietary preparations, whether pursuant to

 3  prescriptions or in the absence and entirely independent of

 4  such prescriptions or orders; and other pharmaceutical

 5  services. For purposes of this subsection, "other

 6  pharmaceutical services" means the monitoring of the patient's

 7  drug therapy and assisting the patient in the management of

 8  his or her drug therapy, and includes review of the patient's

 9  drug therapy and communication with the patient's prescribing

10  health care provider as licensed under chapter 458, chapter

11  459, chapter 461, or chapter 466, or similar statutory

12  provision in another jurisdiction, or such provider's agent or

13  such other persons as specifically authorized by the patient,

14  regarding the drug therapy. However, nothing in this

15  subsection may be interpreted to permit an alteration of a

16  prescriber's directions, the diagnosis or treatment of any

17  disease, the initiation of any drug therapy, the practice of

18  medicine, or the practice of osteopathic medicine, unless

19  otherwise permitted by law. "Practice of the profession of

20  pharmacy" The phrase also includes any other act, service,

21  operation, research, or transaction incidental to, or forming

22  a part of, any of the foregoing acts, requiring, involving, or

23  employing the science or art of any branch of the

24  pharmaceutical profession, study, or training, and shall

25  expressly permit a pharmacist to transmit information from

26  persons authorized to prescribe medicinal drugs to their

27  patients.

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31  And the title is amended as follows:

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 5         amending s. 465.003, F.S.; defining the term

 6         "data communication device"; revising the

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 8         profession of pharmacy"; amending s.

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