BILL NUMBER: SB 643	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Price

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 4075 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to pharmacy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 643, as introduced, Price. Pharmacists: identity.
   The Pharmacy Law provides for the licensure and regulation of
pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy. The law
prohibits furnishing a prescription for a controlled substance that
was transmitted by means of an oral or electronic order to an unknown
person who is unable to properly establish his or her identity.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
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 4075 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   4075.   No   A  prescription for a
controlled substance transmitted by means of an oral or 
electronically transmitted   electronic  order
shall  not  be furnished to  any person 
 an  unknown  and   person who is 
unable to properly establish his or her identity. The board may by
regulation establish procedures to prevent unauthorized persons from
receiving prescription drugs furnished to a patient or a
representative of the patient.