South Carolina General Assembly
123rd Session, 2019-2020

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A117, R119, S16

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senators Rankin and Cash
Document Path: l:\s-res\lar\001phar.sp.lar.docx

Introduced in the Senate on January 8, 2019
Introduced in the House on January 30, 2019
Last Amended on March 3, 2020
Passed by the General Assembly on March 3, 2020
Governor's Action: March 24, 2020, Signed

Summary: Emergency prescription refills

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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  12/12/2018  Senate  Prefiled
  12/12/2018  Senate  Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs
    1/8/2019  Senate  Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 45)
    1/8/2019  Senate  Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs 
                        (Senate Journal-page 45)
   1/17/2019  Senate  Committee report: Favorable with amendment Medical 
                        Affairs (Senate Journal-page 4)
   1/24/2019  Senate  Committee Amendment Adopted (Senate Journal-page 28)
   1/24/2019  Senate  Amended (Senate Journal-page 28)
   1/24/2019  Senate  Read second time (Senate Journal-page 28)
   1/25/2019          Scrivener's error corrected
   1/29/2019  Senate  Read third time and sent to House 
                        (Senate Journal-page 23)
   1/29/2019  Senate  Roll call Ayes-43  Nays-0 (Senate Journal-page 23)
   1/30/2019  House   Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 6)
   1/30/2019  House   Referred to Committee on Medical, Military, Public and 
                        Municipal Affairs (House Journal-page 6)
    5/1/2019  House   Committee report: Favorable with amendment Medical, 
                        Military, Public and Municipal Affairs 
                        (House Journal-page 27)
    5/7/2019  House   Amended (House Journal-page 14)
    5/7/2019  House   Read second time (House Journal-page 14)
    5/7/2019  House   Roll call Yeas-106  Nays-0 (House Journal-page 15)
    5/8/2019  House   Read third time and returned to Senate with amendments 
                        (House Journal-page 46)
    5/9/2019  Senate  Non-concurrence in House amendment 
                        (Senate Journal-page 110)
    5/9/2019  Senate  Roll call Ayes-0  Nays-39 (Senate Journal-page 110)
   1/15/2020  House   House insists upon amendment and conference committee 
                        appointed Reps.  Ridgeway, Spires, and Parks 
                        (House Journal-page 83)
   1/28/2020  Senate  Conference committee appointed  Alexander, Cromer, and 
                        Scott (Senate Journal-page 10)
   2/25/2020  Senate  Conference report received and adopted 
                        (Senate Journal-page 13)
   2/25/2020  Senate  Roll call Ayes-39  Nays-0 (Senate Journal-page 13)
    3/3/2020  House   Conference report adopted (House Journal-page 49)
    3/3/2020  House   Roll call Yeas-106  Nays-0 (House Journal-page 51)
    3/4/2020  Senate  Ordered enrolled for ratification (Senate Journal-page 8)
   3/19/2020          Ratified R  119
   3/24/2020          Signed By Governor
   3/26/2020          Effective date  03/24/20
   3/26/2020          Act No.  117

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

12/12/2018
1/17/2019
1/25/2019
5/1/2019
5/7/2019
3/3/2020


(Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)

(A117, R119, S16)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 40-43-86, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO EMERGENCY REFILLS OF PRESCRIPTIONS BY PHARMACISTS, SO AS TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF A PRESCRIPTION THAT MAY BE REFILLED WHEN AUTHORIZATION FROM THE PRESCRIBER IS NOT OBTAINABLE FROM A TEN-DAY SUPPLY TO A FOURTEEN-DAY SUPPLY, TO PROVIDE RELATED LABELING REQUIREMENTS, AND TO PROVIDE EXCEPTIONS TO ACCOMMODATE CERTAIN PACKAGING CONSTRAINTS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Fourteen-day supplies, labels, exceptions

SECTION    1.    Section 40-43-86(P) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"(P)    If a pharmacist receives a request for a prescription refill and the pharmacist is unable to obtain refill authorization from the prescriber, the pharmacist may dispense, once within a twelve-month period, an emergency refill of up to a fourteen-day supply of the prescribed medication if:

(1)    the prescription is not for a controlled substance;

(2)    the medication is essential to the maintenance of life or to the continuation of therapy;

(3)    in the pharmacist's professional judgment, continuing the therapy for up to fourteen days will produce no undesirable health consequences or cause physical or mental discomfort;

(4)    the pharmacist properly records the dispensing; and

(5)    the dispensing pharmacist notifies the prescriber of the refill and the amount of the refill, not to exceed a fourteen-day supply, within a reasonable time, but no later than ten days after the once in twelve months refill dispensing.

In the event that a pharmacist is unable to dispense an emergency refill for the time period specified in this subsection due to the medication's packaging, the pharmacist is permitted to dispense up to a thirty-day quantity of the medication so long as the requirements contained in this subsection are otherwise met."

Time effective

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Ratified the 19th day of March, 2020.

Approved the 24th day of March, 2020.

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