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Board of Pharmacy asks committee to extend legal funds and expand spending authority for enforcement and PMP
Summary
The Minnesota Board of Pharmacy asked the Senate Health and Human Services Committee to extend a one-time appropriation for litigation through FY2027, increase annual spending authority to maintain operations, add investigative staff and preserve the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) integration license.
The Minnesota Board of Pharmacy asked the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Jan. 28 to allow the board to continue spending previously appropriated legal funds and to raise its ongoing spending authority to keep up with staffing, information-technology and regulatory costs.
“Thank you, Chair Wiklendt, Chair Auty, and members of the committee. My name is Doctor Katrina Howard and I am the deputy director at the Board of Pharmacy,” Deputy Director Katrina Howard said in her opening remarks. The board said it is a small agency with 23 employees that serves more than 26,000 licensees and registrants.
The board described two linked requests: first, an extension of a one-time $1.5 million general fund appropriation currently set to expire June 30, 2025. Those monies were approved in fiscal 2024 and are being used for…
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