1-1     By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 414
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1999; February 8, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Health Services;
 1-4     February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     5, Nays 0; February 18, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the application of certain rules of the Texas State
 1-9     Board of Pharmacy to certain pharmacy pilot and demonstration
1-10     projects.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subsection (v), Section 17, Texas Pharmacy Act
1-13     (Article 4542a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
1-14     read as follows:
1-15           (v)  The board may approve pilot and demonstration research
1-16     projects for innovative applications in the practice of pharmacy.
1-17     The board shall specify the procedures to be followed in applying
1-18     for approval of such a project.  The approval may include the
1-19     granting of an exception to rules adopted under this Act.  The
1-20     board may extend the time an exception to a rule is granted as
1-21     necessary for the board to adopt an amendment or modification of
1-22     the rule.  The board may condition approval of a project on
1-23     compliance with this subsection and rules adopted under this
1-24     subsection.  This subsection shall not be construed to expand the
1-25     definition of pharmacy as provided in this Act.  Demonstration
1-26     projects shall not include therapeutic substitution or substitution
1-27     of medical devices used in patient care.
1-28           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-29           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-30     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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