SB 5019 — Concerning prepacked medication distribution.

S-1144.1S-0104.3 SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5019 State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session By Senate Health & Long-Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Chapman, Bateman, Christian, Dhingra, Harris, Riccelli, Saldaña, Slatter, and Wellman)Wellman READPrefiled FIRST12/09/24. TIME 02/07/25.

ANRead ACTfirst Relatingtime to01/13/25. expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities;

Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.

AN ACT Relating to permitting medications packaged and delivered from the manufacturer in quantities larger than 96 hours of doses to be distributed under existing prepack medication law;

It is the intent of the legislature to accomplish this objective by allowing practitioners with prescriptive authority to prescribe limited amounts of prepackaged emergency medications to patients being discharged from hospital emergencyp. departments when access to community or outpatient hospital pharmacy services is not otherwise available.

p.1 SB 5019 emergency departments when access to community or outpatient hospital pharmacy services is not otherwise available.

1 SSB 5019 (2) A hospital may allow a practitioner to prescribe prepackaged emergency medications and allow a practitioner or a registered nurse licensed under chapter 18.79 RCW to distribute prepackaged emergency medications to patients being discharged from a hospital emergency department in the following circumstances:

(i) Community or hospital outpatient pharmacy services will not be available within 48 hours((, or when antibiotics));

2 SSBSB 5019 (ii)(i) Anti-infectivesCommunity or humanhospital immunodeficiencyoutpatient viruspharmacy postexposureservices prophylaxiswill drugsnot orbe therapiesavailable arewithin required;48 hours((, or when antibiotics));

or(ii) (iii)Anti-infectives Drugs or therapieshuman areimmunodeficiency packagedvirus directlypostexposure byprophylaxis thedrugs manufactureror intherapies quantitiesare largerrequired; than a 48-hour supply that cannot be altered to be limited to a 48-hour supply;

or (iii) Drugs or therapies are packaged directly by the manufacturer in quantities larger than 48 hours;

(b) "Distribute" means the delivery of a drug or device other than by administering or dispensingdispensing((.)) ((.)) ;

and (f)p. "Nurse" means a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse as defined in chapter 18.79 RCW.

p.3 SB 5019 (f) "Nurse" means a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse as defined in chapter 18.79 RCW.

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or (c) Drugs or therapies are packaged directly by the manufacturer in quantities larger than a72 72-hourhours. supply that cannot be altered to be limited to a 72-hour supply.

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