HB393 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Elaine Beech

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Controlled Substances Prescription Database, access by certain employees of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency authorized, disclosure of certain data for certain educational and research activities, Secs. 20-2-91, 20-2-214, 20-2-215 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, federal, state, county, and municipal officers, the investigators of the Board of Dental Examiners, and the agents and officers of the Department of Public Safety may inspect prescriptions, orders, and records relating to controlled substances, including the Controlled Substances Prescription Database, and stocks of Schedule I, II, III, IV, and V controlled substances.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) is the successor agency to the Department of Public Safety. This bill would remove references to agents and officers of the Department of Public Safety and would add Intelligence Analysts of ALEA as authorized persons to inspect the prescriptions, orders, records, and stocks of scheduled controlled substances.

This bill would also permit the release of prescription data from the Controlled Substances Prescription Database for bona fide educational and research activities.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

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Subjects

Controlled Substances