Florida Senate - 2009                                    SB 1868
       
       
       
       By Senator Peaden
       
       
       
       
       2-01738-09                                            20091868__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to pharmacies; amending ss. 465.003
    3         and 465.019, F.S.; authorizing the use of an
    4         institutional formulary system in a Class I
    5         institutional pharmacy at which, with certain
    6         exceptions, all medicinal drugs are administered from
    7         individual prescription containers to the patient and
    8         medicinal drugs are not dispensed on the premises;
    9         providing an effective date.
   10         
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   12         
   13         Section 1. Subsection (7) of section 465.003, Florida
   14  Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         465.003 Definitions.—As used in this chapter, the term:
   16         (7) “Institutional formulary system” means a method whereby
   17  the medical staff evaluates, appraises, and selects those
   18  medicinal drugs or proprietary preparations which in the medical
   19  staff's clinical judgment are most useful in patient care, and
   20  which are available for dispensing by a practicing pharmacist in
   21  a Class I or Class II institutional pharmacy.
   22         Section 2. Subsection (6) of section 465.019, Florida
   23  Statutes, is amended to read:
   24         465.019 Institutional pharmacies; permits.—
   25         (6) In a Class I or Class II institutional pharmacy, an
   26  institutional formulary system may be adopted with approval of
   27  the medical staff for the purpose of identifying those medicinal
   28  drugs and proprietary preparations that may be dispensed by the
   29  pharmacists employed in such institution. A facility with a
   30  Class I or Class II institutional permit which is operating
   31  under the formulary system shall establish policies and
   32  procedures for the development of the system, in accordance with
   33  the joint standards of the American Hospital Association and
   34  American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, for the use
   35  utilization of an institutional a hospital formulary system,
   36  which formulary shall be approved by the medical staff.
   37         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.