HB1738: Hospices; notice to dispenser of patient's death within 48 hours.


VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-162.5:1, relating to hospices; notice to dispenser of hospice patient's death.
[H 1738]
Approved

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 32.1-162.5:1 as follows:

§ 32.1-162.5:1. Notice to dispenser of patient's death.

Any hospice licensed by the Department or exempt from licensure pursuant to § 32.1-162.2 with a hospice patient residing at home at the time of death shall notify every pharmacy that has dispensed partial quantities of a Schedule II controlled substance for a patient with a medical diagnosis documenting a terminal illness, as authorized by federal law, within 48 hours of the patient's death.


HOUSE BILL NO. 1738
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
on January 29, 2015)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Hodges)
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-162.5:1, relating to hospices; notice to dispenser of hospice patient's death.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 32.1-162.5:1 as follows:

§ 32.1-162.5:1. Notice to dispenser of patient's death.

Any hospice licensed by the Department or exempt from licensure pursuant to § 32.1-162.2 with a hospice patient residing at home at the time of death shall notify every pharmacy that has dispensed partial quantities of a Schedule II controlled substance for a patient with a medical diagnosis documenting a terminal illness, as authorized by federal law, within 48 hours of the patient's death.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1738

Offered January 14, 2015
Prefiled January 12, 2015
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-162.5:1, relating to hospices; notice to dispenser of hospice patient's death.
Patron-- Hodges

Committee Referral Pending

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 32.1-162.5:1 as follows:

§ 32.1-162.5:1. Notice to dispenser of patient's death.

Any hospice licensed by the Department or exempt from licensure pursuant to § 32.1-162.2 shall notify each pharmacy that dispenses prescription drugs to a hospice patient for the purposes of pain management of such patient's death within 24 hours of the patient's death.