Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding an appropriately numbered new SECTION to read:
/ SECTION __. Section 40-43-86(P) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"(P) If a pharmacist receives a request for a prescription refill and the pharmacist is unable to obtain refill authorization from the prescriber, the pharmacist may dispense, a one-time emergency refill once within a twelve-month period, of up to a seventy-two hour an emergency refill of up to a ten day supply of the prescribed medication if:
(1) the prescription is not for a controlled substance;
(2) the medication is essential to the maintenance of life or to the continuation of therapy;
(3) in the pharmacist's professional judgment, continuing the therapy for seventy-two hours up to ten days will produce no undesirable health consequences or cause physical or mental discomfort;
(4) the pharmacist properly records the dispensing; and
(5) the dispensing pharmacist notifies the prescriber of the emergency dispensing refill and the amount of the refill, not to exceed a ten-day supply, within seventy-two hours a reasonable time, but no later than ten days after the one-time emergency once in twelve months refill dispensing." /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.