BILL NUMBER: AB 1916	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2010

   An act to relating to pharmacy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1916, as introduced, Davis. Pharmacies: reports.
   Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and
regulation of pharmacies by the California State Board of Pharmacy.
Existing law requires any pharmacy that contracts to compound a drug
for parenteral therapy for delivery to another pharmacy to report
that contractual arrangement to the board.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to require a
pharmacy to report to the board when a patient is given a
prescription that belongs to another person.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation requiring a pharmacy to report to the California State
Board of Pharmacy when a patient is given a prescription that belongs
to another person, in order to determine how to possibly decrease
the number of mix-ups and thereby save lives.