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SF 536Died when the session ended · March 13, 2019

Relating to telepharmacy licensing requirements

Sponsored by the Senate State Government Committee

Topics:Health care

Same legislation: SF 399

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 27, 2019
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 28, 2019
  3. Done: Senate committeeMarch 7, 2019
  4. Done: Passes the SenateMarch 13, 201948–0
  5. Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to licensing of a telepharmacy site. The bill eliminates the prohibition in current law against the issuance of a special or limited-use pharmacy license to a telepharmacy site if a licensed pharmacy that dispenses prescription drugs to outpatients is located within miles of the proposed telepharmacy site, unless the proposed telepharmacy site is located on property owned, operated, or leased by the state or unless the proposed telepharmacy site is located within a hospital campus and is limited to inpatient dispensing.

Read the full explanation

Current law also provides that the mileage requirement does not apply to a telepharmacy site that was approved and operating as a telepharmacy prior to July 1, 2016. The bill also eliminates a corresponding provision that would allow an applicant that did not meet or was not otherwise exempt from the mileage requirement to apply for a waiver of the mileage requirement.

Full bill text1

House subcommittee

Named March 18, 2019. Meeting: Monday, March 25 · 12:30 PM · House Lounge.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§155A.13

How the Code works2

Lobbying

4 for · 0 against · 14 undecided · Who →

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