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Health committee approves amended Bill 282 to regulate compounding pharmacies and register med spas
Summary
The health committee passed Amendment 14 to Bill 282, clarifying compounding-pharmacy definitions, adding certificate-of-analysis requirements, empowering complaint-driven inspections by the board of pharmacy, establishing med-spa registration beginning in January, narrowing adverse-event reporting to death and inpatient hospitalizations within 15 days, and ordering a biannual compounding study; the amendment passed 12–0.
The health committee approved an amended version of Bill 282 on a recorded vote announced by the chair as 12–0, adopting Amendment 14 as a working framework to clarify oversight of compounding pharmacies and to create a registration system for med spas.
The committee chair said she had earlier been working from an earlier 'senate introduced' draft rather than the committee-passed version and that Amendment 14 was intended to reconcile differences. "I left in a section that was a poison pill to the bill," the chair said, adding that she had removed that language and revised definitions so compounding would not be prohibited.
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