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Board backs broad slate of bills on contraception access, PBM oversight, insulin caps and pharmacy modernization
Summary
The board’s legislation committee recommended positions—largely support—on a package of bills including expanded pharmacist furnishing of contraception, PBM regulation, insulin affordability, pharmacy practice modernization in the board's sunset bill, and other measures the board determined affect pharmacy practice or public protection.
The California State Board of Pharmacy’s Legislation and Regulation Committee reported a series of board positions on pending state bills, recommending support for measures it determined were consistent with the board’s public‑protection mission and operational needs.
Among the measures the board elected to support were: bills expanding pharmacist authority to furnish contraceptives (including authorizing up to a 12‑month supply and clarifying furnishing of OTC non‑hormonal options); a measure to make permanent prior authorizations flexibilities and other emergency waivers (AB 529); a bill extending…
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