BILL ANALYSIS Ó
AB 486
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Date of Hearing: May 6, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Jimmy Gomez, Chair
AB
486 (Bonilla) - As Introduced February 23, 2015
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Urgency: Yes State Mandated Local Program: YesReimbursable:
No
SUMMARY:
This bill modifies requirements as to what must be
human-readable, versus machine-readable using barcode medication
administration software, for medication labels produced by
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centralized hospital packaging pharmacies (CHPP).
FISCAL EFFECT:
Negligible state fiscal effect.
COMMENTS:
1)Purpose. According to the author, this is a cleanup measure to
AB 377 (Solorio), Chapter 687, Statutes of 2012. That bill
authorized CHPPs, central pharmacies that can provide greater
efficiency, lower costs, and a higher degree of automation by
serving a number of hospitals in a hospital system. Due to
variation in technology, not all CHPPs are able to comply with
the various specific requirements in current law, which has
forced the Board of Pharmacy to issue waivers. This bill
attempts to remedy this problem by ensuring the information
necessary to protect patient safety is still included on the
label, but structuring requirements such that current systems
can comply.
2)Prior Legislation.
a) AB 2757 (Bocanegra) of 2014, was substantially similar
to this bill. The bill passed the Senate Committee on
Business, Professions and Economic Development but was not
heard in the Assembly.
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b) AB 377 (Solorio), Chapter 687, Statutes of 2012,
authorized a centralized hospital packaging pharmacy to
prepare medications, by performing specified functions for
administration only to inpatients within its own general
acute care hospital, or one or more general acute care
hospitals under the same ownership and located within 75
miles of each other.
Analysis Prepared by:Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916)
319-2081