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Committee advances technical fix to pharmacy inventory law with amendment to allow FBI checks for surrogate parents
Summary
The House Executive Departments and Administration Committee advanced Senate Bill 254 on a unanimous 14‑0 vote, approving a technical fix that aligns state pharmacy controlled‑substance inventory timing with federal law and adopting a non‑germane amendment to update FBI background‑check language so the Department of Education can receive national fingerprint checks for educational surrogate parents.
The House Executive Departments and Administration Committee advanced Senate Bill 254 on a 14‑0 vote, approving a technical change to state law that removes an outdated reference to “odd‑numbered” years for controlled‑substance inventories and adopting a non‑germane amendment to update FBI background‑check language for educational surrogate parents.
Senator David Rochefort, sponsor of SB 254, told the committee the underlying measure corrects a drafting error introduced when the state previously adopted federal inventory rules. “We achieved our purpose in adopting federal law,” Rochefort said, “but we missed striking the ‘every odd number year’ language. This fixes that mistake and keeps the requirement that inventories be done every other year, pharmacy by pharmacy.”
The committee also approved an amendment, carried into SB 254 as a non‑germane change, that revises statutory language on FBI fingerprint‑based criminal history checks…
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