BILL NUMBER: SB 364	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Florez

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act relating to pharmacy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 364, as introduced, Florez. Pharmacies.
   Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and
regulation of pharmacies by the California State Board of Pharmacy.
Existing law prohibits a person, other than a pharmacist or other
specified persons, from being in a specified area where controlled
substances or dangerous drugs or dangerous devices are stored,
possessed, prepared, manufactured, derived, compounded, dispensed, or
repackaged.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation authorizing the imposition of specified penalties on a
pharmacy that fails to safeguard controlled substances, as specified.

   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 that would authorize the imposition of specific penalties
on pharmacies that fail to safeguard controlled substances used to
make controlled substances for illegal use.