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. 1-34 * * * * *