By: Klick (Senate Sponsor - Sparks) H.B. No. 4166
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023;
  May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
  Human Services; May 11, 2023, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 11, 2023, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE VOTE
 
 
         YeaNayAbsentPNV
         KolkhorstX
         PerryX
         BlancoX
         HallX
         HancockX
         HughesX
         LaMantiaX
         MilesX
         SparksX
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the packaging requirements for certain donated
  prescription drugs.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 442.053(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A donated prescription drug may be accepted or dispensed
  under this chapter only if the drug is in its original, unopened,
  sealed, and tamper-evident bottle, container, or unit-dose
  packaging.  A drug packaged in single unit doses may be accepted and
  dispensed if the outside packaging is opened but the single
  unit-dose packaging is unopened.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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