By Swinford H.B. No. 1846
76R6320 JD-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the definitions of "dangerous drug" under the Texas
1-3 Dangerous Drug Act and the Texas Pharmacy Act.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 483.001(2), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (2) "Dangerous drug" means a device or a drug that is
1-8 unsafe for self-medication and that is not included in Schedules I
1-9 through V or Penalty Groups 1 through 4 of Chapter 481 (Texas
1-10 Controlled Substances Act). The term includes a device or a drug
1-11 that bears or is required to bear the legend:
1-12 (A) Caution: federal law prohibits dispensing
1-13 without prescription; [or]
1-14 (B) Caution: Rx only; or
1-15 (C) Caution: federal law restricts this drug to
1-16 use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 5(15), Texas Pharmacy Act (Article
1-18 4542a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-19 follows:
1-20 (15) "Dangerous drug" has the meaning assigned by
1-21 Section 483.001, Health and Safety Code. [means any drug or device
1-22 that is not included in Penalty Groups 1-4 of the Controlled
1-23 Substances Act and that is unsafe for self-medication or any drug
1-24 or device that bears or is required to bear the legend:]
2-1 [(A) "Caution: federal law prohibits dispensing
2-2 without prescription"; or]
2-3 [(B) "Caution: federal law restricts this drug
2-4 to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian."]
2-5 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-6 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.