HB423 Alabama 2010 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Jack PageDemocrat - Session
- Regular Session 2010
- Title
- Prescription legend drugs, donation of drugs by hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or hospices to charitable pharmacies, authorized, physicians' samples authorized to be donated and transferred to charitable clinics and pharmacies, Secs. 20-3-2, 20-3-3 am'd.
- Description
Under existing law, legend drugs dispensed to a patient at a hospital, nursing facility, assisted living facility, or hospice may be donated and transferred to charitable clinics to be used by charitable patients without charge if certain conditions are met.
This bill would allow legend drugs to be dispensed by prescription but not administered to patients at certain health care facilities to be donated and transferred to charitable clinics under certain conditions; to authorize the drugs to be transferred in the same manner to charitable pharmacies, as defined, to be dispensed to charitable patients; and to further authorize samples given to physicians to be donated and transferred to charitable clinics and charitable pharmacies.
- Subjects
- Health
Bill Actions
Pending third reading on day 25 Favorable from Health with 1 substitute
Indefinitely Postponed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
Bill Text
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Source: Alabama Legislature