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Senate amends and advances real‑time prescription database bill after floor debate; later tabled on fiscal grounds
Summary
Lawmakers amended First Substitute House Bill 119 to create a real‑time controlled‑substances prescription database to track multiple prescriptions and identify misuse; sponsors cited data on dozens of thousands of overlapping prescriptions and the bill was amended and read, then tabled on third because of fiscal concerns.
First Substitute House Bill 119 proposes creation of an online, real‑time database for prescribing and filling controlled substances so that prescribers and pharmacists can detect potential misuse. Senator Bramble presented the bill and described an amendment intended to clarify the definition of 'real time.'
"What this bill does, it creates an online real time database for prescribing and…
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