SB73 Alabama 2020 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Greg J. Reed SenatorRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2020
- Title
- Controlled substance database, access by board of nursing authorized for monitoring licensees, Sec. 20-2-214 am'd.
- Description
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 the purpose of monitoring the prescribing activities of authorized nurses and to monitor nurses who are prescribed controlled substances.
This bill would also make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.
- Subjects
- Nursing, Board of
Bill Actions
Healthcare first Amendment Offered
Pending third reading on day 11 Favorable from Healthcare with 1 amendment
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Healthcare
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Source: Alabama Legislature