SB0636sam002 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Terry Link

Filed: 3/7/2017

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 636

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 636 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act is amended by changing Section 4 as follows:

(225 ILCS 85/4) (from Ch. 111, par. 4124)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)

Sec. 4. Exemptions. Nothing contained in any Section of this Act shall apply to, or in any manner interfere with:

(a) the lawful practice of any physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches, dentist, podiatric physician, veterinarian, or therapeutically or diagnostically certified optometrist within the limits of his or her license, or prevent him or her from supplying to his or her bona fide patients such drugs, medicines, or poisons as may seem to him appropriate;

(b) the sale of compressed gases;

(c) the sale of patent or proprietary medicines and household remedies when sold in original and unbroken packages only, if such patent or proprietary medicines and household remedies be properly and adequately labeled as to content and usage and generally considered and accepted as harmless and nonpoisonous when used according to the directions on the label, and also do not contain opium or coca leaves, or any compound, salt or derivative thereof, or any drug which, according to the latest editions of the following authoritative pharmaceutical treatises and standards, namely, The United States Pharmacopoeia/National Formulary (USP/NF), the United States Dispensatory, and the Accepted Dental Remedies of the Council of Dental Therapeutics of the American Dental Association or any or either of them, in use on the effective date of this Act, or according to the existing provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and Regulations of the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, promulgated thereunder now in effect, is designated, described or considered as a narcotic, hypnotic, habit forming, dangerous, or poisonous drug;

(d) the sale of poultry and livestock remedies in original and unbroken packages only, labeled for poultry and livestock medication;

(e) the sale of poisonous substances or mixture of poisonous substances, in unbroken packages, for nonmedicinal use in the arts or industries or for insecticide purposes; provided, they are properly and adequately labeled as to content and such nonmedicinal usage, in conformity with the provisions of all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations promulgated thereunder now in effect relating thereto and governing the same, and those which are required under such applicable laws and regulations to be labeled with the word "Poison", are also labeled with the word "Poison" printed thereon in prominent type and the name of a readily obtainable antidote with directions for its administration;

(f) the delegation of limited prescriptive authority by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches to a physician assistant under Section 7.5 of the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987. This delegated authority under Section 7.5 of the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987 may, but is not required to, include prescription of controlled substances, as defined in Article II of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, in accordance with a written supervision agreement; and

(g) the delegation of prescriptive authority by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches or a licensed podiatric physician to an advanced practice nurse in accordance with a written collaborative agreement under Sections 65-35 and 65-40 of the Nurse Practice Act; and .

(h) the sale or distribution of dialysate or devices necessary to perform home peritoneal renal dialysis for patients with end-stage renal disease, provided that all of the following conditions are met:

(1) the dialysate, comprised of dextrose or icodextrin, or devices are approved or cleared by the federal Food and Drug Administration, as required by federal law;

(2) the dialysate or devices are lawfully held by a manufacturer or the manufacturer's agent, which is properly registered with the Board as a manufacturer or wholesaler;

(3) the dialysate or devices are held and delivered to the manufacturer or the manufacturer's agent in the original, sealed packaging from the manufacturing facility;

(4) the dialysate or devices are delivered only upon receipt of a physician's prescription by a licensed pharmacy in which the prescription is processed in accordance with provisions set forth in this Act, and the transmittal of an order from the licensed pharmacy to the manufacturer or the manufacturer's agent; and

(5) the manufacturer or the manufacturer's agent delivers the dialysate or devices directly to: (i) a patient with end-stage renal disease, or his or her designee, for the patient's self-administration of the dialysis therapy or (ii) a health care provider or institution for administration or delivery of the dialysis therapy to a patient with end-stage renal disease.

This paragraph (h) does not include any other drugs for peritoneal dialysis, except dialysate, as described in item (1) of this paragraph (h). All records of sales and distribution of dialysate to patients made pursuant to this paragraph (h) must be retained in accordance with Section 18 of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 98-214, eff. 8-9-13.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".