Bill Text - SB458 (2024)

Relative to the dispensing of certain medications.


Revision: Dec. 12, 2023, 2:42 p.m.

SB 458  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-3026

09/05

 

SENATE BILL 458

 

AN ACT relative to the dispensing of certain medications.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Rep. Notter, Hills. 12; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36

 

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill adds to the list of exceptions to the prohibition for dealing in or possessing prescription drugs the dispensing of up to a 90-day supply of noncontrolled oral anti-cancer medication by a licensed health care professional legally authorized to administer medications to a patient under a provider’s care or supervision.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-3026

09/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to the dispensing of certain medications.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Pharmacists and Pharmacies; Regulation of Pharmacies; Dealing in or Possessing Prescription Drugs.  Amend RSA 318:42 by inserting after paragraph VII-b the following new paragraph:

VII-c. The dispensing of up to a 90-day supply of noncontrolled oral anti-cancer medication by a licensed health care professional legally authorized to administer medications to a patient under a provider’s care or supervision.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.