98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB2730

 

Introduced 2/21/2013, by Rep. Jack D. Franks

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
225 ILCS 85/18  from Ch. 111, par. 4138
225 ILCS 85/22  from Ch. 111, par. 4142

    Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Requires pharmacists to include the manufacturer's lot number of dispensed drugs in their records and on labeling of prescriptions.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act is amended by changing
5Sections 18 and 22 as follows:
 
6    (225 ILCS 85/18)  (from Ch. 111, par. 4138)
7    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
8    Sec. 18. Record retention. Except as provided in subsection
9(b), there shall be kept in every drugstore or pharmacy a
10suitable book, file, or electronic record keeping system in
11which shall be preserved for a period of not less than 5 years
12the original, or an exact, unalterable image, of every written
13prescription and the original transcript or copy of every
14verbal prescription filled, compounded, or dispensed, in such
15pharmacy; and such book or file of prescriptions shall at all
16reasonable times be open to inspection to the pharmacy
17coordinator and the duly authorized agents or employees of the
18Department.
19    Every prescription filled or refilled shall contain the
20unique identifiers of the persons authorized to practice
21pharmacy under the provision of this Act who fills or refills
22the prescription and the manufacturer's lot number of the
23dispensed drug.

 

 

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1    Records kept pursuant to this Section may be maintained in
2an alternative data retention system, such as a direct digital
3imaging system, provided that:
4        (1) the records maintained in the alternative data
5    retention system contain all of the information required in
6    a manual record;
7        (2) the data processing system is capable of producing
8    a hard copy of the electronic record on the request of the
9    Board, its representative, or other authorized local,
10    State, or federal law enforcement or regulatory agency;
11        (3) the digital images are recorded and stored only by
12    means of a technology that does not allow subsequent
13    revision or replacement of the images; and
14        (4) the prescriptions may be retained in written form
15    or recorded in a data processing system, provided that such
16    order can be produced in printed form upon lawful request.
17    As used in this Section, "digital imaging system" means a
18system, including people, machines, methods of organization,
19and procedures, that provides input, storage, processing,
20communications, output, and control functions for digitized
21representations of original prescription records.
22    Inpatient drug orders may be maintained within an
23institution in a manner approved by the Department.
24(Source: P.A. 94-84, eff. 6-28-05; 95-689, eff. 10-29-07.)
 
25    (225 ILCS 85/22)  (from Ch. 111, par. 4142)

 

 

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1    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
2    Sec. 22. Except only in the case of a drug, medicine or
3poison which is lawfully sold or dispensed, at retail, in the
4original and unbroken package of the manufacturer, packer, or
5distributor thereof, and which package bears the original label
6thereon showing the name and address of the manufacturer,
7packer, or distributor thereof, and the name of the drug,
8medicine, or poison therein contained, and the directions for
9its use, no person shall sell or dispense, at retail, any drug,
10medicine, or poison, without affixing to the box, bottle,
11vessel, or package containing the same, a label bearing the
12name of the article distinctly shown, and the directions for
13its use, with the name and address of the pharmacy wherein the
14same is sold or dispensed. However, in the case of a drug,
15medicine, or poison which is sold or dispensed pursuant to a
16prescription of a physician licensed to practice medicine in
17all of its branches, licensed dentist, licensed veterinarian,
18licensed podiatrist, or therapeutically or diagnostically
19certified optometrist authorized by law to prescribe drugs or
20medicines or poisons, the label affixed to the box, bottle,
21vessel, or package containing the same shall show: (a) the name
22and address of the pharmacy wherein the same is sold or
23dispensed; (b) the name or initials of the person, authorized
24to practice pharmacy under the provisions of this Act, selling
25or dispensing the same, (c) the date on which such prescription
26was filled; (d) the name of the patient; (e) the serial number

 

 

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1of such prescription as filed in the prescription files; (f)
2the last name of the practitioner who prescribed such
3prescriptions; (g) the directions for use thereof as contained
4in such prescription; and (h) the proprietary name or names or
5the established name or names of the drugs; (i) the
6manufacturer's lot number of the dispensed drug; and (j) , the
7dosage and quantity, except as otherwise authorized by
8regulation of the Department.
9(Source: P.A. 95-689, eff. 10-29-07.)