Florida Senate - 2019                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for HB 1115
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Harrell moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (799184) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 12 - 28
    5  and insert:
    6  this state may dispense up to a 24-hour supply of a medicinal
    7  drug to any patient of, or patient discharged from, an emergency
    8  department of a hospital that operates a Class II or Class III
    9  institutional pharmacy, provided that the physician who is
   10  treating the patient in such hospital’s emergency department, or
   11  who is treating the discharged patient, determines that the
   12  medicinal drug is warranted and that community pharmacy services
   13  are not readily accessible, geographically or otherwise, to the
   14  patient. Such prescribing and dispensing from the emergency
   15  department must be in accordance with the procedures of the
   16  hospital. For any such patient for whom a medicinal drug is
   17  warranted for a period to exceed 24 hours, an individual
   18  licensed to prescribe such drug must be for the greater of
   19  dispense a 24-hour supply of such drug or a supply of such drug
   20  which will last the patient until the next business day, to the
   21  patient and the prescriber must provide the patient with a
   22  prescription for such drug for use after such the initial 24
   23  hour period.
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   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete lines 61 - 62
   28  and insert:
   29         institutional pharmacies to dispense a certain supply,
   30         of such drugs to any