Senate Bill 0370

    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 370

    By the Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; and
    Senators Silver, Latvala and Klein




    317-216-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to pharmacy; requiring the

  3         Board of Medicine and the Board of Pharmacy to

  4         provide recommendations and submit a report to

  5         the Legislature concerning the formulary for

  6         generic and brand-name drugs; repealing s.

  7         465.025(6), F.S., which requires the

  8         establishment of a formulary of generic and

  9         brand-name drug products which are

10         inequivalent; providing an effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  The Board of Medicine and the Board of

15  Pharmacy must jointly submit a report to the Legislature by

16  January 1, 2001, which recommends whether the formulary for

17  generic and brand-name drugs required by section 465.025(6),

18  Florida Statutes, should be retained. If the report recommends

19  retention of the formulary established under section

20  465.025(6), Florida Statutes, the report must specify how

21  further restrictions on generic drug substitution will be

22  based solely on scientific evidence of drug equivalency and

23  what standards and evidence will be used in making such

24  determinations and must estimate the costs of making drug

25  equivalency determinations in Florida.

26         Section 2.  Effective July 1, 2001, subsection (6) of

27  section 465.025, Florida Statutes, is repealed.

28         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 370
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  2                          SENATE SUMMARY

  3    Requires the Board of Medicine and the Board of Pharmacy
      to make recommendations to the Legislature concerning the
  4    formulary for generic and brand-name drugs. Repeals the
      provision of law which requires the establishment of the
  5    formulary.

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