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Committee advances pharmacy-practice changes to let pharmacists initiate therapy and add vaccines to scope
Summary
The House Health and Human Services Committee voted unanimously to pass a substitute for SB261, which broadens collaborative practice rules to let pharmacists initiate certain therapies, adds vaccines and epinephrine to pharmacist-authorized services, and sets up online pseudoephedrine ordering with verification requirements.
Senators and committee members voted unanimously to advance Senate Bill 261 after the bill’s sponsor outlined modest changes to the Pharmacy Practice Act that would expand pharmacists’ roles and create an online pseudoephedrine ordering framework.
The bill’s sponsor told the committee SB261 “is just three simple things”: it updates the definition of collaborative pharmacy practice agreements to…
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