Budget Amendment ID: FY2015-S4-828

EHS 828

Prescription Medication Redistr

Ms. Chandler and Mr. Tarr moved that the proposed new text be amended moved that the bill be amended by inserting, after section___, the following new section:-

"SECTION___. The Department of Public Health is hereby directed to develop and implement a “Prescription Medication Redistribution Program” in which authorized, qualified medical professionals working in hospitals, healthcare centers, clinics, hospice institutions, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, pharmacies shall collect safe, unused prescription medications that are no longer needed by patients for whom they are prescribed and establish standards to redistribute them to qualified patients unable to afford the cost of medications for conditions for which they have been legally prescribed by a prescribing physician.”