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Legislative Wrap-up

SB0178 – Sen. Susan Garrett – Passed both Senate and House awaiting Governor's signature – Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Agency to establish household waste drop-off sites for pharmaceutical and personal care product waste. Becoming a waste drop-off site is voluntary and in order to receive pharmaceutical waste the site must be a seller of pharmaceutical products. Neutral

SB0212 – Sen. Koehler – Passed both Senate and House awaiting Governor's signature – Amends the Illinois Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act. Adds definitions for "health care professional" and "expedited partner therapy". Provides that the Department of Public Health shall provide information and technical assistance as appropriate to health care professionals who provide expedited partner therapy services for persons with sexually transmissible diseases. Provides that a health care professional who makes a clinical diagnosis of chlamydia or gonorrhea may prescribe, dispense, furnish, or otherwise provide prescription antibiotic drugs to the infected person's sexual partner or partners without physical examination of the partner or partners, if in the judgment of the health care professional, the partner is unlikely or unable to present for comprehensive health care. Provides that the health care professional shall provide counseling for the patient and written materials to be given by the patient to the partner or partners. Provides that a health care professional providing expedited partner therapy in good faith without fee or compensation and providing counseling and written materials shall not be subject to civil or professional liability, except for willful and wanton misconduct. Provides immunity from civil and professional liability to pharmacies and pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for this program that would cause the Pharmacy Practice Act to be violated. Neutral

SB1267 – Sen. Maggie Crotty - Passed both Senate and House awaiting Governor signature – Amends the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. Provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to restrict the dispensing and sale by an optometrist of ocular devices, such as contact lenses, that contain and deliver ocular pharmaceutical agents permitted for use or prescription under the Act. Neutral

SB1381 – Sen. William Haine – Passed in Senate placed on third reading calendar in the House – Creates the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. Provides that when a person has been diagnosed by a physician as having a debilitating medical condition, the person and the person's primary caregiver may be issued a registry identification card by the Department of Public Health that permits the person or the person's primary caregiver to legally possess no more than 7 dried cannabis plants and 2 ounces of dried usable cannabis. Amends the Cannabis Control Act to make conforming changes. Provides that the provisions of the Act are severable. Provides that the Act is repealed 3 years after its effective date. Repeals the research provisions of the Cannabis Control Act. Oppose

SB1919 – Sen. Susan Garrett – Passed both Senate and House awaiting Governor's signature – Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that no health care institution, or any employee, staff person, contractor, or other person under the direction or supervision of a health care institution, may discharge, dispose of, flush, pour, or empty any unused medication into a public wastewater collection system or a septic system. Defines "unused medication" as “unopened, expired, or excess medication that has been dispensed for patient or resident care and that is in solid form. The term includes pills, tablets, capsules, and caplets.” Unused medication does not include any Schedule II controlled substance under federal law in any form and medications contained in intravenous fluids, syringes, or transdermal patches. Makes a violation a petty offense subject to a $500 fine. Oppose

HB0152 – Rep. Susana Mendoza – Passed both Senate and House awaiting Governor's signature – Provides that a health insurance policy or health care service plan contract that covers immunosuppressant drugs may not limit, reduce, or deny coverage of immunosuppressant drugs if prior to the limitation, reduction, or denial of coverage the insured was using the drug and was covered under the policy or contract. Provides that nothing in the Act shall prohibit an insurer from making changes in its benefit design that applies to all covered drugs or from increasing cost-sharing obligations due to a percentage coinsurance payment that necessarily increases with an increase in the underlying drug prices. Neutral

HB0277 – Rep. Patricia Bellock – Passed in the House – Creates the Prescription Drug Repository Program Act. After amendment this is a bill in title only. Neutral

HB0488 – Rep. Lou Lang – Passed both Senate and House awaiting Governor's signature – Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that any written prescription for a Schedule II controlled substance may be filled within 90 (rather than 7) days after issuance. Support

HB0497 – Rep. David Miller Passed both Senate and House awaiting Governor's signature – Amends the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act. Provides that the Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse within the Department of Human Services may publish an annual report on statewide drug overdose trends, may establish a program to provide for the publication of drug overdose prevention, recognition, and response literature, may provide advice to State and local officials concerning drug overdose problems, and may award grants to create or support local drug overdose prevention, recognition, and response projects. Requires a health care professional prescribing an opioid antidote to a patient to ensure that the patient receives certain patient information; provides for immunity from disciplinary or other adverse administrative action; and provides for administration of an opioid antidote in an emergency. Requires the Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, in consultation with statewide organizations, to develop and disseminate to health care professionals, community-based organizations, substance abuse programs, and other organizations training materials in video, electronic, or other formats to facilitate the provision of the required patient information. – Neutral

HB1014 – Rep. Angelo Saviano - Passed both Senate and House awaiting Governor's signature – Amends the Nurse Practice Act, the Pharmacy Practice Act, and the Illinois Controlled Substances Act to allow for the delegation of prescriptive authority to an advanced practice nurse by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches or a licensed podiatrist for any Schedule III through V controlled substances (now, Schedule III, III-N, IV, or V controlled substances). In the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, sets forth guidelines for the prescriptive authority delegated to advanced practice nurses as it relates to certain controlled substances, including Schedule II controlled substances. In the Nurse Practice Act, provides for the licensure of a registered professional nurse as a certified registered nurse anesthetist who does not have the required graduate degree, provided that he or she meets certain other requirements. Provides for the licensure of an advanced practice nurse as a certified registered nurse anesthetist who does not have the required graduate degree, provided that he or she applies for licensure before July 1, 2018, and submits certain information to the Department required for licensure. Neutral

HB1293 – Rep. Angelo Saviano - Passed both Senate and House awaiting Governor's signature – Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Replaces "pharmacy intern" with "student pharmacist". Provides that any person may apply and successfully register with the Department as a student pharmacist if he or she provides proof that he or she is actively enrolled in a course of study for his or her first professional degree in pharmacy at an ACPE accredited college of pharmacy and has not engaged in conduct or behavior determined to be grounds for discipline under this Act. Also allows foreign pharmacy graduates to use the “student pharmacist” title while completing their 1,200 hours of clinical instruction required prior to sitting for NABPLEX. Provides that once a student pharmacist receives his or her certificate of registration from the Department, he or she may, under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist, assist in the practice of pharmacy and perform any and all functions delegated to him or her by the pharmacist. Also provides some clean-up language for the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Effective December 31, 2009. Support

HB2247 – Rep. Angelo Saviano - Passed both Senate and House awaiting Governor's signature – Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987. Provides that a physician assistant may prescribe, dispense, and administer drugs and medical devices to the extent delegated by the supervising physician, including the prescribing and dispensing of Schedule II through V controlled substances as described in Article II of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act and all legend drugs (now, limited prescriptive authority may be delegated by a physician for Schedule III, IV, and V controlled substances in written guidelines to a physician assistant). Provides that dispensing activities of any physician assistant shall comply with appropriate federal and State regulations and occur when pharmacy services are not reasonably available, or when it is in the best interest of the patient, or when it is an emergency. Provides that physician assistants may request, receive, and sign for professional samples and may distribute professional samples to patients. Amends the Controlled Substances Act. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall register licensed physician assistants and licensed advanced practice nurses to prescribe and dispense Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substances (now, III, IV or V controlled substances). Makes other changes. Neutral

HB2396 – Rep. Angelo Saviano – Passed in the House – Amends the Optometric Practice Act to allow optometrists to dispense contact lenses that contain and deliver ocular pharmaceutical agents. Neutral

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