Report Title:
Return of Prescription Drugs
Description:
Limits return of prescription drugs to acute care hospitals; repeals the Act on June 30, 2003 or the day before the department of human service promulgates rules on the returns for other facilities; reinstates the 461-11(c) as it was the day before the effective date of this Act. (SB257 HD1)
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
257 |
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TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001 |
S.D. 2 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
H.D. 1 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
rELATING TO THE Return of prescription drugs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 461-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
"(c) Prescription drugs previously [dispensed or] distributed by a pharmacist may be returned to and [redispensed or] redistributed by the pharmacist in an acute care hospital as defined in section 327–5.5, if the prescription drug:
(1) Is in its dispensed, unopened, tamper-evident single user unit;
(2) Has remained at all times in control of a person trained and knowledgeable in the storage and administration of drugs in [institutional facilities or supervised living groups using the services of a consultant pharmacist;] an acute care hospital as defined in section 327-5.5;
(3) Has not been adulterated or misbranded and has been stored under conditions meeting the United States pharmacopoeia standards; and
(4) Is returned [and redispensed] or redistributed before the expiration date on the unit [; and
(5) Does not include any controlled substance under chapter 329]."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that it shall be repealed on the later of June 30, 2003, or on the day before rules adopted by the department of human services under chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, concerning the return of prescription drugs takes effect; and provided that section 461-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is reenacted in the form in which it read on the day before this Act takes effect.