By: Klick (Senate Sponsor - Sparks) H.B. No. 4331
         (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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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the donors of certain unused prescription drugs.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 442.001(1), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
               (1)  "Donor" means an individual, a prescription drug
  manufacturer, or a health care facility, including a pharmacy, that
  [who] donates unused prescription drugs under this chapter to a
  participating provider.
         SECTION 2.  Section 442.056, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 442.056.  RECIPIENT FORM.  Before accepting a donated
  prescription drug under this chapter, a recipient shall sign a form
  prescribed by the department stating that:
               (1)  the recipient acknowledges that if the donor is an
  individual, prescription drug manufacturer, or health care
  facility other than a pharmacy, the donor is not a pharmacist and
  the donor took ordinary care of the prescription drug;
               (2)  the recipient acknowledges that the donor is known
  to the participating provider and that there is no reason to believe
  that the prescription drug was improperly handled or stored;
               (3)  by accepting the prescription drug, the recipient
  accepts any risk that an accidental mishandling could create; and
               (4)  the recipient releases the donor, participating
  provider, and manufacturer of the drug from liability related to
  the prescription drug.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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