Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1568
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/10/2025           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
       (Brodeur) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 31 - 64
    4  and insert:
    5  state of emergency is declared pursuant to s. 252.36;
    6         (a) The practitioner and the dispenser are the same entity;
    7         (b) The prescription cannot be transmitted electronically
    8  under the most recently implemented version of the National
    9  Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT Standard;
   10         (c) The practitioner has been issued a waiver by the
   11  department, not to exceed 1 year in duration, from the
   12  requirement to use electronic prescribing due to demonstrated
   13  economic hardship, technological limitations that are not
   14  reasonably within the control of the practitioner, or another
   15  exceptional circumstance demonstrated by the practitioner;
   16         (d) The practitioner reasonably determines that it would be
   17  impractical for the patient in question to obtain a medicinal
   18  drug prescribed by electronic prescription in a timely manner
   19  and such delay would adversely impact the patient’s medical
   20  condition;
   21         (e) The practitioner is prescribing a drug under a research
   22  protocol;
   23         (f) The prescription is for a drug for which the federal
   24  Food and Drug Administration requires the prescription to
   25  contain elements that may not be included in electronic
   26  prescribing;
   27         (g) The prescription is issued to an individual receiving
   28  hospice care or who is a resident of a nursing home facility; or
   29         (e)(h) The practitioner determines that it is in the best
   30  interest of the patient, or the patient determines that it is in
   31  his or her own best interest, to compare prescription drug
   32  prices among area pharmacies. The practitioner must document
   33  such determination in the patient’s medical record.
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   35  The department, in consultation with the Board of Medicine, the
   36  Board of Osteopathic Medicine, the Board of Podiatric Medicine,
   37  the Board of Dentistry, the Board of Nursing, and the Board of
   38  Optometry, may adopt rules to implement this subsection.
   39         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 456.43, Florida
   40  Statutes, is republished to read:
   41         456.43 Electronic prescribing for medicinal drugs.—
   42         (1) Electronic prescribing may not interfere with a
   43  patient’s freedom to choose a pharmacy.
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   46  And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete line 5
   48  and insert:
   49         certain drugs; revising exceptions; republishing s.
   50         456.43(1), F.S., relating to electronic prescribing
   51         for medicinal drugs; amending ss.