SB 16 – AS INTRODUCED
2005 SESSION
10/09
SENATE BILL 16
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
This bill establishes a pharmacy oversight committee in the department of health and human services to recommend changes to pharmacy regulation and administration.
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05-0419
10/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five
AN ACT establishing a pharmacy oversight committee.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subdivision; Pharmacy Oversight Committee. Amend RSA 126-A by inserting after section 62 the following new subdivision:
126-A:63 Pharmacy Oversight Committee.
I. There is established in the office of the commissioner of health and human services a pharmacy oversight committee which shall consist of the following members, appointed by and serving at the discretion of the commissioner:
(a) A departmental employee responsible for pharmacy programs.
(b) A representative of the pharmaceutical industry.
(c) A community pharmacist.
(d) A hospital pharmacist.
(e) A clinical, nuclear or other specialty pharmacist.
(f) A public member who is not a pharmacist.
II. The pharmacy oversight committee shall have the following duties:
(a) Overseeing and reporting to the commissioner on the operation and administration of the regulation of pharmacies and pharmacists by the department and the New Hampshire pharmacy board.
(b) Recommending changes to statutes regulating the New Hampshire pharmacy board, licensed pharmacists, and complaint procedures against pharmacists and members of the pharmacy board.
III. Members of the committee shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for mileage.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.