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House Bill 200 moves additional pharmacy board rules into statute; committee forwards bill
Summary
Representative Jordan Redmond asked the Health and Welfare Committee to move additional pharmacy-related rules from administrative code into statute via House Bill 200; the committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation.
Representative Jordan Redmond introduced House Bill 200 and said it continues a multi-year effort to move Department of Health and Welfare and licensing-board rules from administrative code into statute.
Redmond, who identified himself as representing District 3 in Kootenai County and declared a Rule 80 conflict (owning retail pharmacies), said the bill is part of a two-year migration and that the prior batch passed unanimously last year as House Bill 527. He said the current measure does not expand or shrink practice authority and “imposes no new burdens and will not change practice,” but would move existing rules into statute so elected lawmakers retain policy control.
Redmond also explained that an item in the print hearing concerns a board rule (Rule 400) that prohibits annotated or postdated prescriptions; he summarized that the addition refers to an existing board rule stating “a prescription drug order is invalid if annotated or postdated.”
No external testimony was recorded. Representative Healy moved to send House Bill 200 to the floor with a due pass recommendation and the committee approved the motion by voice vote; the chair recorded an aye vote and announced the bill is sent to the floor.
