Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1868
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/15/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Health and Human Services Appropriations
       (Peaden) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 87 and 88
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Section 456.42, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    6  read:
    7         456.42 Written prescriptions for medicinal drugs.—A written
    8  prescription for a medicinal drug issued by a health care
    9  practitioner licensed by law to prescribe such drug must be
   10  legibly printed or typed so as to be capable of being understood
   11  by the pharmacist filling the prescription; must contain the
   12  name of the prescribing practitioner, the name and strength of
   13  the drug prescribed, the quantity of the drug prescribed in both
   14  textual and numerical formats, and the directions for use of the
   15  drug; must be dated with the month written out in textual
   16  letters; and must be signed by the prescribing practitioner on
   17  the day when issued. A written prescription for a controlled
   18  substance listed in chapter 893 must have the quantity of the
   19  drug prescribed in both textual and numerical formats and must
   20  be dated with the abbreviated month written out on the face of
   21  the prescription. However, a prescription that is electronically
   22  generated and transmitted must contain the name of the
   23  prescribing practitioner, the name and strength of the drug
   24  prescribed, the quantity of the drug prescribed in numerical
   25  format, and the directions for use of the drug and must be dated
   26  and signed by the prescribing practitioner only on the day
   27  issued, which signature may be in an electronic format as
   28  defined in s. 668.003(4).
   29         Section 5. Paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section
   30  893.04, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   31         893.04 Pharmacist and practitioner.—
   32         (2)
   33         (d) Each written prescription prescribed by a practitioner
   34  in this state for a controlled substance listed in Schedule II,
   35  Schedule III, or Schedule IV must include both a written and a
   36  numerical notation of the quantity of the controlled substance
   37  prescribed on the face of the prescription and a notation of the
   38  date, with the abbreviated month written out on the face of the
   39  prescription. A pharmacist may, upon verification by the
   40  prescriber, document any information required by this paragraph.
   41  If the prescriber is not available to verify a prescription, the
   42  pharmacist may dispense the controlled substance but may insist
   43  that the person to whom the controlled substance is dispensed
   44  provide valid photographic identification. If a prescription
   45  includes a numerical notation of the quantity of the controlled
   46  substance or date, but does not include the quantity or date
   47  written out in textual format, the pharmacist may dispense the
   48  controlled substance without verification by the prescriber of
   49  the quantity or date if the pharmacy previously dispensed
   50  another prescription for the person to whom the prescription was
   51  written.
   52  
   53  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   54         And the title is amended as follows:
   55         Delete line 14
   56  and insert:
   57         the treatment of cancer; amending s. 456.42, F.S.;
   58         revising provisions specifying the information
   59         required to be included in written prescriptions for
   60         medicinal drugs; amending s. 893.04, F.S.; authorizing
   61         a pharmacist to dispense a controlled substance and
   62         require photographic identification without
   63         documenting certain information; authorizing a
   64         pharmacist to dispense a controlled substance without
   65         verification of certain information by the prescriber
   66         under certain circumstances; providing an effective
   67         date.