HB 0363 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Health Care recommends the following:
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8	Committee Substitute
9	Remove the entire bill and insert:
10	A bill to be entitled
11	An act relating to drug prescriptions; creating s. 456.42,
12	F.S; requiring written drug prescriptions to be legibly
13	printed or typed, to contain certain information, and to
14	be dated and signed by the prescribing practitioner on the
15	day issued; providing an effective date.
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17	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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19	Section 1. Section 456.42, Florida Statutes, is created to
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21	456.42 Written prescriptions for medicinal drugs.--A
22	written prescription for a medicinal drug issued by a health
23	care practitioner licensed by law to prescribe such drug must be
24	legibly printed or typed so as to be capable of being understood
25	by the pharmacist filling the prescription; must contain the
26	name of the prescribing practitioner, the name and strength of
27	the drug prescribed, the quantity of the drug prescribed in both
28	textual and numerical formats, and the directions for use of the
29	drug; must be dated with the month written out in textual
30	letters; and must be signed by the prescribing practitioner on
31	the day when issued.
32	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.
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