SB2058 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB2058

Introduced 2/10/2017, by Sen. Chapin Rose

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

225 ILCS 85/25.20

Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that, beginning on January 1, 2022, all prescriptions orders for drugs or medical devices must be electronically transmitted to the patient's pharmacy of choice. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to adopt rules governing the use of electronically transmitted prescription orders.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act is amended by changing Section 25.20 as follows:

(225 ILCS 85/25.20)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)

Sec. 25.20. Electronic visual image prescriptions. If a pharmacy's computer system can capture an unalterable electronic visual image of the prescription drug order, the electronic image shall constitute the original prescription and a hard copy of the prescription drug order is not required. The computer system must be capable of maintaining, printing, and providing, upon a request by the Department, the Department's compliance officers, and other authorized agents, all of the prescription information required by State law and regulations of the Department within 72 hours of the request.

Beginning on January 1, 2022, all prescriptions orders for drugs or medical devices, as defined in this Act, must be electronically transmitted to the patient's pharmacy of choice. The Department shall adopt rules governing the use of electronically transmitted prescription orders.

(Source: P.A. 95-689, eff. 10-29-07.)