BILL NUMBER: SB 632	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Emmerson

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 4037 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to pharmacy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 632, as introduced, Emmerson. Pharmacy.
   Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and
regulation of pharmacists and pharmacies by the California State
Board of Pharmacy. Existing law defines the term "pharmacy" for the
purposes of these provisions.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
   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.  Section 4037 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   4037.  (a) "Pharmacy"  means   shall mean
 an area, place, or premises licensed by the board in which the
profession of pharmacy is practiced and where prescriptions are
compounded. "Pharmacy" includes, but is not limited to, any area,
place, or premises described in a license issued by the board wherein
controlled substances, dangerous drugs, or dangerous devices are
stored, possessed, prepared, manufactured, derived, compounded, or
repackaged, and from which the controlled substances, dangerous
drugs, or dangerous devices are furnished, sold, or dispensed at
retail.
   (b) "Pharmacy" shall not include any area in a facility licensed
by the State Department of Public Health where floor supplies, ward
supplies, operating room supplies, or emergency room supplies of
dangerous drugs or dangerous devices are stored or possessed solely
for treatment of patients registered for treatment in the facility or
for treatment of patients receiving emergency care in the facility.