HB1248 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1248

Introduced 2/15/2007, by Rep. Elizabeth Coulson

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

225 ILCS 85/22	from Ch. 111, par. 4142
225 ILCS 85/22b new

Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987. Provides that prior to dispensing a prescription, a pharmacist must present the patient or a person legally authorized to make decisions for the patient with the option of having the symptom or purpose for the medication disclosed on the prescription label, and that if the patient or person legally authorized to make decisions for the patient chooses to have the symptom or purpose for the medication disclosed on the label, the pharmacist must specify the symptom or purpose of the medication in the prescription order and the prescription label must contain that symptom or purpose.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987 is amended by changing Section 22 and by adding Section 22b as follows:

(225 ILCS 85/22) (from Ch. 111, par. 4142)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2008)

Sec. 22. Except only in the case of a drug, medicine or poison which is lawfully sold or dispensed, at retail, in the original and unbroken package of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor thereof, and which package bears the original label thereon showing the name and address of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor thereof, and the name of the drug, medicine, or poison therein contained, and the directions for its use, no person shall sell or dispense, at retail, any drug, medicine, or poison, without affixing to the box, bottle, vessel, or package containing the same, a label bearing the name of the article distinctly shown, and the directions for its use, with the name and address of the pharmacy wherein the same is sold or dispensed. However, in the case of a drug, medicine, or poison which is sold or dispensed pursuant to a prescription of a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches, licensed dentist, licensed veterinarian, licensed podiatrist, or therapeutically or diagnostically certified optometrist authorized by law to prescribe drugs or medicines or poisons, the label affixed to the box, bottle, vessel, or package containing the same shall show: (a) the name and address of the pharmacy wherein the same is sold or dispensed; (b) the name or initials of the person, authorized to practice pharmacy under the provisions of this Act, selling or dispensing the same, (c) the date on which such prescription was filled; (d) the name of the patient; (e) the serial number of such prescription as filed in the prescription files; (f) the last name of the practitioner who prescribed such prescriptions; (g) the directions for use thereof as contained in such prescription; and (h) the proprietary name or names or the established name or names of the drugs, the dosage and quantity, except as otherwise authorized by regulation of the Department; and (i) the symptom or purpose for which the drug is being prescribed if the prescription order specifies the symptom or purpose as provided for under Section 22b of this Act. The Department shall establish rules governing labeling in Division II and Division III pharmacies.

(Source: P.A. 92-880, eff. 1-1-04.)

(225 ILCS 85/22b new)

Sec. 22b. Statement of symptom or purpose on prescription label.

(a) The General Assembly finds that by authorizing pharmacists to print the symptom or purpose of medications on prescription labels, possible medication errors may be avoided.

(b) Prior to dispensing a prescription, a pharmacist must present the patient or a person legally authorized to make decisions for the patient with the option of having the symptom or purpose for the medication disclosed on the prescription label. If the patient or person legally authorized to make decisions for the patient chooses to have the symptom or purpose for the medication disclosed on the label, the pharmacist must specify the symptom or purpose of the medication in the prescription order.