Brief (1)
HB 2210 concerns the distribution and control of drugs in medical care facility pharmacies and specified other types of facilities in which drugs may be kept and distributed.
The bill adds licensed physician assistants to those persons the pharmacist in charge of a medical care facility pharmacy may designate to be in charge of the distribution and control of drugs when the pharmacist in charge, a term defined in the Pharmacy Act of the State of Kansas, is not present.
HB 2210 adds indigent health clinics and federally qualified health centers to those places in which drugs may be kept for the purpose of treating patients when such place is registered with the Board of Pharmacy. Licensed physician assistants are added to the persons who may be designated by the pharmacist in charge to be responsible for the distribution and control of drugs when the pharmacist is not present in any of the entities specified in the statute.
The Senate Committee amendments delete redundant references to advanced registered nurse practitioners.
Background
HB 2210 was introduced at the request of the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved after consultation with the Board of Pharmacy and the Kansas Pharmacy Association. The Association also visited with the Boards of Healing Arts and Nursing and the Kansas Medical Society and Kansas State Nurses Association in preparing the legislation. A representative of the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved appeared before the Senate Committee to support the legislation, and written support was received from the Board of Pharmacy and the Kansas State Nurses Association.
The Senate Committee amendments delete references to advanced registered nurse practitioners from the bill since such persons are registered nurses and therefore already covered in the existing law.
1. *Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at http://www.ink.org/public/legislative/fulltext.cgi