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Senate approves prescription monitoring database after floor debate on privacy and penalties
Summary
The Utah Senate passed SB42 to create a controlled‑substance prescription database intended to help law enforcement and reduce diversion; floor debate focused on access controls, cost and privacy, and sponsors cited stiff penalties for unauthorized disclosures.
Salt Lake City — The Utah State Senate on Feb. 1, 1995, approved Senate Bill 42 to establish a controlled‑substance prescription database designed to track prescriptions and aid law enforcement efforts to curb abuse and diversion.
Senator Robert Montgomery, the bill sponsor, said the system is meant to give law enforcement ‘‘information and tracking for the law enforcement officers to easily and readily obtain the information as to what pharmacies, what physicians, and what patients are abusing the system.’’ He told colleagues that unauthorized access would be punished as a third‑degree felony, with a maximum fine of $5,000 and up…
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