Wyoming Pharmacy Act amendments.

Plain English Breakdown

The term 'continuous quality improvement programs' is mentioned but its specific definition or implementation details are left to future rulemaking, which may introduce uncertainties.

Wyoming Pharmacy Act Amendments

This law changes parts of Wyoming's Pharmacy Act to define what it means to practice pharmacy and requires the Board of Pharmacy to make rules about how pharmacists can work with doctors.

What This Bill Does

• Defines 'practice of pharmacy' as including interpreting, evaluating, compounding, dispensing or administering medical orders or prescriptions, providing patient counseling, assessing patients for prescribing drugs and devices, initiating pharmacist care services, using continuous quality improvement programs, emerging technologies, and competency-based education to improve patient safety, and engaging in collaborative pharmaceutical care.
• Specifies that pharmacists are not required to participate in collaborative pharmaceutical care and such practices will be governed by rules made by the Board of Pharmacy.
• Requires the Wyoming Board of Pharmacy to create rules to implement these changes.

Who It Names or Affects

• Pharmacists practicing in Wyoming
• Patients receiving pharmacy services

Terms To Know

Collaborative pharmaceutical care

A practice where pharmacists work closely with doctors to manage patient care.

Limits and Unknowns

• The exact rules governing collaborative pharmaceutical care will be determined by the Wyoming Board of Pharmacy.
• This act does not specify how pharmacists should engage in continuous quality improvement programs or use emerging technologies, leaving these details to future rulemaking.

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 26LSO-0147

Bill No.:

SF0121

Effective:

Multiple Dates

LSO No.:

26LSO-0147

Enrolled Act No.:

SEA No. 0065

Chapter No.:

103

Prime Sponsor:

Dockstader

Catch Title:

Wyoming Pharmacy Act amendments.

Has Report:

No

Subject:

Expands the Wyoming Pharmacy Act's scope of practice.

Summary/Major Elements:

This act creates a definition of practice of pharmacy, which includes interpreting, evaluating, compounding, dispensing or administering medical orders or prescriptions, providing patient counseling, assessing patients, initiating or providing pharmacist care services, using methods to improve patient safety and engaging in collaborative pharmaceutical care.

Regarding collaborative pharmaceutical care, the act provides that no pharmacist shall be required to participate and collaborative pharmaceutical care shall be governed by Board of Pharmacy rules.

The Board of Pharmacy is required to promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent.

While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

26LSO-0147

ORIGINAL Senate

ENGROSSED
File No
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SF0121

ENROLLED ACT NO. 65,

SENATE

SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2026 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming Pharmacy Act; amending provisions related to the practice of pharmacy; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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

Section 1
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W.S. 33
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124 is amended to read:

33
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124.

Persons deemed practicing pharmacy.

(a)

Any person shall be deemed to be practicing pharmacy within the meaning of this act who provides collaborative pharmaceutical care or prepares, or compounds, or processes, or packages, or repackages, or labels, or dispenses, or sells, or offers for sale, at retail or in connection with operation of a health
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care facility, any dangerous drugs, medicines, poisons, chemicals, narcotics, or prescriptions, which are identified as such in accordance with this act.

(b)

"Practice of pharmacy" means, but is not limited to:

(i)

Interpreting, evaluating, compounding, dispensing or administering medical orders or prescriptions;

(ii)

Providing patient counseling;

(iii)

Assessing the patient for the purpose of prescribing drugs and devices pursuant to board of pharmacy rules;

(iv)

Initiating or providing pharmacist care services pursuant to board of pharmacy rules;

(v)

Using continuous quality improvement programs, emerging technologies and competency
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based education to improve patient safety and the quality of services provided;

(vi)

Engaging in collaborative pharmaceutical care.

(c)

Regarding

collaborative pharmaceutical care:

(i)

Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require any pharmacist to provide collaborative pharmaceutical care. No employer shall discriminate against a pharmacist on the basis that the pharmacist declines to participate in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement;

(ii)

The practice of collaborative pharmaceutical care shall be governed by board of pharmacy rules.

Section 2
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The board of pharmacy shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 3
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(a)

Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2026
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(b)

Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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