HB102 Alabama 2020 Session

Under existing law, the Department of Public Health maintains a controlled substances prescription database program. The law specifies who may access the database, including health care practitioners with privileges to prescribe controlled substances and the Board of Medical Examiners to monitor prescriptions of controlled substances prescribed by physicians

This bill would authorize the Alabama Board of Nursing to access the controlled substances database for inquiries related to investigations or disciplinary activities concerning nurses who are authorized to prescribe controlled substances and nurses who are prescribed controlled substances

This bill would also make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style

Relating to the controlled substances database; to amend Section 20-2-214, Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the Alabama Board of Nursing to access the controlled substances database for inquiries related to investigations or disciplinary actions concerning nurses who prescribe controlled substances or who are prescribed controlled substances; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.