SB93 Alabama 2016 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Larry StuttsSenator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Controlled substance prescription database, Class II to Class V controlled substances, reporting of dispensing, veterinarians exempt from report, Sec. 20-2-213 am'd.

Summary

SB93 removes veterinarians from the requirement to report dispensing of Class II–V controlled substances to Alabama’s Controlled Substances Prescription Database.

What This Bill Does

If enacted, veterinarians would no longer have to report dispensed Class II–V controlled substances to the database. Other groups—the licensed pharmacies, mail-order pharmacies, and licensed physicians, dentists, podiatrists, and optometrists who dispense these drugs to patients—would keep reporting under the existing framework. The act retains the data elements, reporting format, penalties for noncompliance, and departmental enforcement provisions, and it becomes effective on the first day of the third month after passage and governor approval.

Who It Affects

• Veterinarians who dispense Class II–V controlled substances to animals: exempt from reporting requirements.
• Licensed pharmacies and mail-order pharmacies: continue to report dispensing data for Class II–V substances.
• Licensed physicians, dentists, podiatrists, and optometrists: continue to report dispensing data for Class II–V substances to patients.

Key Provisions

• Amends Section 20-2-213 to remove veterinarians from the practitioners required to report controlled substance dispensing information.
• Maintains reporting requirements for licensed pharmacies (with certain hospital pharmacy exclusions), mail-order pharmacies/pharmacy benefit programs, and licensed physicians, dentists, podiatrists, and optometrists who dispense Class II–V substances to patients.
• Keeps the required data elements for reporting (prescriber name, date dispensed, patient name and address, NDC, quantity, dispensing entity, and applicable payment information).
• Allows disciplinary action for noncompliance and requires the department to report failures to the appropriate licensing boards as formal complaints.
• Effective date: the act takes effect on the first day of the third month following passage and governor approval.

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Subjects

Drugs