Pharmacy technicians.

WORKING DRAFT
2005
STATE OF WYOMING
05LSO-0382.E1

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0092

Pharmacy technicians.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Anderson, J. and Representative(s) Osborn

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the state board of pharmacy; increasing the number of members; providing that one member shall be a licensed pharmacy technician; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 33
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102(a) and 33
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103 are amended to read:

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102.

State board of pharmacy; generally.

(a)

There is created a state board of pharmacy whose duty is to carry out the purposes and to enforce the provisions of this act. The board shall consist of
three (3)
five (5)

voting members
consisting of four (4) licensed pharmacists and one (1) licensed pharmacy technician

and three (3) ex officio members, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. Members of the now existing board of pharmacy shall continue in office as voting members as if regularly appointed under this act. Their terms shall expire in accordance with their original appointments and be filled in accordance with the provisions of W.S. 28
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101. The three (3) ex officio members shall be respectively: a licensed practicing physician, a licensed practicing dentist and a licensed practicing doctor of veterinary medicine, who have had at least five (5) years of active private practice in the state before their appointment. The ex officio members shall have no vote and shall have no part of licensing procedures or license suspension or revocation actions. The ex officio members shall correlate the interprofessional relationships in the uses, proposed uses and distribution of drugs insofar as the three (3) professions represented have direct interest.

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103.

State board of pharmacy; qualifications of voting members; limitation on terms; prohibited affiliations.

(a)

No
person
pharmacist

shall be eligible to be a voting member of the board of pharmacy who has not been legally qualified to practice, and who has not been engaged in the active practice of pharmacy in the state for at least five (5) continuous years immediately prior to membership, who does not at the time of his appointment hold a
certificate
license
entitling him to practice pharmacy in the state, who is not a citizen of the United States and a resident of Wyoming, and who does not actively practice pharmacy in Wyoming throughout his term. No
pharmacist

member shall be appointed to, or serve, more than two (2) successive terms. No member shall be connected with a school or college of pharmacy in a professional or executive capacity.

(b)

No pharmacy technician shall be eligible to be a voting member of the board of pharmacy who has not been legally qualified in assisting pharmacists in the practice of pharmacy, and who has not been engaged in active practice as a pharmacy technician in the state for at least five (5) continuous years immediately prior to membership, who does not at the time of his appointment hold a license issued by the board entitling him to be a pharmacy technician in the state, who is not a citizen of the United States and a resident of Wyoming, and who does not actively practice as a pharmacy technician in Wyoming throughout his term. No pharmacy technician member shall be appointed to, or serve, more than two (2) successive terms.

Section 2.
This act is effective July 1, 2005.

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