H. B. 2768
(By Delegates Eldridge, Beane, Barker, Webster,
Hrutkay, Pino and Hall)
[Introduced
March 1, 2005
; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new article, designated §16-42-1, §16-42-2
and §16-42-3, all relating to establishing a system whereby
pharmacies share information so that they may be alerted
when an individual is attempting to go to multiple
pharmacies with prescriptions from multiple doctors to
obtain drugs for resale.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new article, designated §16-42-1, §16-42-2
and §16-42-3, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 42. MULTIPLE PRESCRIPTIONS ABUSE PREVENTION ACT.
§16-42-1. Title of article.
This article shall be know as the "Multiple Prescriptions
Abuse Prevention Act."
§16-42-2. Purpose of article; legislative findings.
The purpose of this article is to prevent individuals from
going to multiple doctors and multiple pharmacies to acquire
prescription drugs so that they may then sell them by
establishing a system whereby pharmacies share information so
that they may be aware when an individual is seeking to acquire
multiple prescriptions from different pharmacies. The
Legislature recognizes that prescription drug abuse is a serious
problem and that the sharing of information among pharmacies
would curtail the illegal sale of prescription drugs by
preventing persons from obtaining multiple prescriptions at
different pharmacies.
§16-42-3. Creation of database.
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human
Resources shall develop a system to allow pharmacies to share
data so that the individual pharmacies may be aware that an
individual has been seeking to have multiple prescriptions for
the same or similar drugs filled at multiple pharmacies. The
Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources shall
propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the
provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
prevent individuals
from going to multiple doctors and multiple pharmacies to acquire
prescription drugs so that they may then sell them by
establishing a system whereby pharmacies share information so that they may be aware when an individual is seeking to acquire
multiple prescriptions from different pharmacies
.
This article is
new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.
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