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Senate Bill 195 |
Senate Author: Schwertner |
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Effective: See below |
House Sponsor: Crownover |
Senate Bill 195 amends Government Code, Health and Safety Code, and Occupations Code provisions relating to prescriptions for and certain other issues involving controlled substances regulated under the Texas Controlled Substances Act. Among other provisions, the bill changes the entity with which a person must register to manufacture, distribute, analyze, or dispense a controlled substance from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration and provides for the transfer of the regulation of the official prescription program from DPS to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. The bill revises the persons who may access certain official prescription information submitted to the board and provides for DPS's unrestricted access to that information. The bill establishes requirements for the imposition of fees used to fund the official prescription program by the board or a state agency that licenses prescribers or dispensers of controlled substances.
Effective June 20, 2015, Senate Bill 195 requires the board to adopt certain rules and expands the membership of the interagency prescription monitoring work group. Otherwise, the bill takes effect September 1, 2016.