Prescription refills

What it does

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill allows a pharmacist to dispense prescribed drugs in quantities and fills that vary from the quantities and fills specified in a prescribing practitioner's prescription order, unless the prescriber specifies that adherence to the prescription order is medically necessary.

Under current law, no prescription may be renewed except as designated on a prescription order. This bill deletes this provision and instead provides that a pharmacist may exercise his or her professional judgment to dispense varying quantities of the prescribed drug per fill up to the total number of dosage units as authorized by the prescriber in the original prescription including any refills, unless the prescriber has specified in the prescription order that dispensing a prescribed drug in an initial amount followed by periodic refills as specified in the prescription order is medically necessary. The bill does not affect provisions in current law that prohibit or limit refills of controlled substances.

Who's behind it

2 representatives are its authors⁠. All 2 are Republicans.

1 more lawmaker signed on in support⁠.

Versions and amendments

Every text the Legislature printed for this bill, including proposed changes. Each opens on the Legislature's site.

• Amendment Histories
• LC Amendment Memo