By Van de Putte H.B. No. 748
76R3291 JD-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the submission of prescription information to the
1-3 director of the Department of Public Safety under the Texas
1-4 Controlled Substances Act.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 481.075(i), Health and Safety Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (i) Each dispensing pharmacist shall:
1-9 (1) fill in on the official prescription form each
1-10 item of information given orally to the dispensing pharmacy under
1-11 Subsection (h), the date the prescription is filled, and the
1-12 dispensing pharmacist's signature;
1-13 (2) retain with the records of the pharmacy for at
1-14 least two years:
1-15 (A) the official prescription form; and
1-16 (B) the name or other patient identification
1-17 required by Section 481.074(m) or (n); and
1-18 (3) send to the director by electronic transfer all
1-19 information required by the director, including any information
1-20 required to complete an official prescription form[, to the
1-21 director by electronic transfer, a universal claim form customarily
1-22 used by pharmaceutical service providers,] or a [other] form
1-23 approved by the director, including a universal claim form
1-24 customarily used by pharmaceutical service providers, not later
2-1 than the 30th day after the date the prescription is filled or not
2-2 later than the 30th day after the completion of a prescription
2-3 dispensed under Section 481.074(f).
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.