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NH committee hears wide-ranging pharmacy bill that would let pharmacists ‘prescribe’ in limited scopes
Summary
SB504 would modernize the statutory definition of pharmacy practice, add limited prescribing authority within pharmacists’ training, allow physicians to dispense certain anticancer drugs, and update technician and licensing rules; proponents cite rural‑health grant incentives, while medical society asks for guardrails and reporting requirements.
The House Executive Departments and Administration Committee on April 1 took testimony on Senate Bill 504, a comprehensive update to New Hampshire pharmacy law that sponsors and pharmacy groups say is intended to align statutes with current education and practice and to expand access in underserved areas.
Senator David Rochefort, sponsor of SB504, said the bill contains both cleanup items (license display rules, remote‑work corrections for licensed advanced pharmacy technicians and label wording) and new provisions. Major new elements include allowing physicians to dispense up to a 30‑day supply of certain non‑controlled oral anticancer drugs under pharmacy‑practice guardrails, and rewriting the statutory definition of the “practice of pharmacy” to explicitly include limited ‘‘prescribing’’ consistent with pharmacists’ training.
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