SB 80 - Authorizes Pharmacists to Decline to Sell Certain Cold Medicines - Indiana Key Vote
Ben Smaltz Co-Sponsored (Introduced) this Legislation.
Timeline
- Executive Signed
- March 21, 2016
- Concurrence Vote
- March 10, 2016
- House Conference Report Adopted
- March 9, 2016
- House Bill Passed
- Feb. 29, 2016
- Referred to Committee
- Feb. 8, 2016
- Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 3, 2016
- Introduced
- Jan. 5, 2016
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Title: Authorizes Pharmacists to Decline to Sell Certain Cold Medicines
Signed by Governor Mike Pence
Title: Authorizes Pharmacists to Decline to Sell Certain Cold Medicines
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes a pharmacist to decline to sell cold medicines used to make methamphetamine, effective July 1, 2016.
Highlights:
- Requires a pharmacist to make a professional determination based on prior medication filling history as to whether there is a legitimate medical need before selling ephedrine or pseudoephedrine to an individual (Sec. 4).
- Authorizes a pharmacist or a pharmacy technician to be immune from civil liability if he or she declines to sell ephedrine or pseudoephedrine to an individual (Sec. 4).
- Authorizes a pharmacist to sell an alternative product to an individual who is declined ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, including the following products (Sec. 4):
- An extraction-resistant form of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine;
- A conversion-resistant form of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine; or
- A product that contains up to 720 milligrams of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine per package and 30 milligrams per tablet.
Title: Authorizes Pharmacists to Decline to Sell Certain Cold Medicines
- Vaneta Becker (IN - R)
- Ed Charbonneau (IN - R)
- Jon Ford (IN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Susan C. Glick (IN - R)
- Brandt Hershman (IN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Travis Holdman (IN - R)
- Dennis K. Kruse (IN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Lonnie Marcus Randolph Jr. (IN - D)
- Earline S. Rogers (IN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Brent Ellis Steele (IN - R) (Out Of Office)