Plain English Breakdown
The bill status is listed as passed by both chambers, but no effective date was provided in the source material.
HB1309: Rules for Practitioners Who Give Out Medicine
This bill clarifies that any practitioner who gives out medicine is doing pharmacy work and must follow record-keeping rules, while also changing how doctors can let others give out or order certain drugs.
What This Bill Does
- Clarifies that all practitioners who dispense drugs are engaged in the practice of pharmacy.
- Requires these practitioners to comply with all record keeping and other requirements for pharmacies.
- Provides authority for the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy to enforce rules and regulations on drug dispensing.
- Expands the ability of physicians to delegate the power to dispense certain drugs to others.
- Removes some limits on what doctors can allow others to order regarding drugs, treatments, or studies.
Who It Names or Affects
- Practitioners who give out medicine
- Physicians
Limits and Unknowns
- The official source does not list the specific types of drugs that can be delegated.
- The effective date for when these rules start is not provided in the source material.