State regulators back advertising and delegation provisions, press for edits and pharmacy implementation help in S.28

The Secretary of State's Office and the Office of Professional Regulation (OPR) told the House Committee on Health Care they support several changes in S.28 that target deceptive advertising, strengthen oversight of delegated clinical tasks and alter certain pharmacy labeling and prescriber‑naming requirements — but asked lawmakers for precise drafting edits and for more information from pharmacy organizations before finalizing some operational changes.

For the record, Lauren Hibbert, deputy secretary of state, and Jen Collett, general counsel at OPR, testified section‑by‑section. "We strongly support this section of the law being changed" on public‑records exemptions for licensee contact information, Hibbert said, explaining OPR routinely receives commercial requests for lists that include email addresses.

Why it matters: S.28 would add false or misleading advertising about health care services to the unprofessional‑conduct statute, tighten language around delegation and supervisory responsibility for delegated tasks, allow certain prescribing by adaptive questionnaire in limited circumstances, and permit a prescriber to request limited dispensing label information be omitted from…