HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                                    Bill No. HB 69   Barcode 962427
    Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only)
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11  The Council for Healthy Communities offered the following:
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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 
14  Remove from the bill:  Everything after the enacting clause
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16  and insert in lieu thereof:  
17         Section 1.  The Board of Pharmacy and the Board of
18  Medicine shall remove any generic named drug product from the
19  formulary established by s. 465.025(6), Florida Statutes, if
20  every commercially marketed equivalent of that drug product is
21  "A" rated as therapuetically equivalent to a reference listed
22  drug or is a reference listed drug as referred to in "Approved
23  Drug Products with Therapuetic Equivalence Evaluations"
24  (Orange Book) published by the United States Food and Drug
25  Administration.
26         Section 2.  Nothing in this act shall alter or amend s.
27  465.025, Florida Statutes, as to existing law providing for
28  the authority of physicians to prohibit generic drug
29  substitution by writing "medically necessary" on the
30  prescription.
31         Section 3.  This bill shall take effect upon becoming a
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    File original & 9 copies    03/23/01                          
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HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 69 Barcode 962427 Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only) 1 law. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 File original & 9 copies 03/23/01 hgs0002 02:26 pm 00069-hcc -962427