H. B. 2173
(By Delegates Eldridge, Barker, Hrutkay and Pino)
[Introduced January 16, 2007; 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 §16-43-1, §16-43-2
and §16-43-3, 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 §16-43-1, §16-43-2 and
§16-43-3, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 43. MULTIPLE PRESCRIPTIONS ABUSE PREVENTION ACT.
§16-43-1. Title of article.
This article shall be know as the "Multiple Prescriptions
Abuse Prevention Act."
§16-43-2. 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.
§16-43-3. 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. This bill would
establish a pharmacy information sharing system, making pharmacies
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.