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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4411 Introduced 1/16/2024, by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that a pharmacist must ensure that a sign warning of the dangers associated with opioids is conspicuously displayed in the pharmacy. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall develop the form and content of the sign. |
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| | HB4411 | | LRB103 36081 RPS 66170 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 19.1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (225 ILCS 85/19.1) |
| 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028) |
| 8 | | Sec. 19.1. Dispensing opioids and opioid antagonists. |
| 9 | | (a) Due to the recent rise in opioid-related deaths in |
| 10 | | Illinois and the existence of an opioid antagonist that can |
| 11 | | reverse the deadly effects of overdose, the General Assembly |
| 12 | | finds that in order to avoid further loss where possible, it is |
| 13 | | responsible to allow greater access of such an antagonist to |
| 14 | | those populations at risk of overdose. |
| 15 | | (b) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the |
| 16 | | contrary, a licensed pharmacist shall dispense an opioid |
| 17 | | antagonist in accordance with written, standardized procedures |
| 18 | | or protocols developed by the Department with the Department |
| 19 | | of Public Health and the Department of Human Services and |
| 20 | | filed at the pharmacy before implementation and are available |
| 21 | | to the Department upon request. |
| 22 | | (c) Before dispensing an opioid, a pharmacist shall inform |
| 23 | | patients that opioids are addictive and offer to dispense an |