<p> 1 South Carolina General Assembly 2 122nd Session, 2017-2018 3 4 S. 243 5 6 STATUS INFORMATION 7 8 General Bill 9 Sponsors: Senator Rankin 10 Document Path: l:\s-jud\bills\rankin\jud0023.kw.docx 11 12 Introduced in the Senate on January 10, 2017 13 Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Medical Affairs 14 15 Summary: Emergency refills of prescriptions 16 17 18 HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 19 20 Date Body Action Description with journal page number 21 1/10/2017 Senate Introduced and read first time ( Senate Journalpage 122) 22 1/10/2017 Senate Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs ( Senate Journalpage 122) 23 24 View the latest legislative information at the website 25 26 27 VERSIONS OF THIS BILL 28 29 1/10/2017 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A BILL 10 11 TO AMEND SECTION 404386(P), CODE OF LAWS OF 12 SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO 13 EMERGENCY REFILLS OF PRESCRIPTIONS BY 14 PHARMACISTS, SO AS TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF A 15 PRESCRIPTION THAT MAY BE REFILLED WHEN 16 AUTHORIZATION FROM THE PRESCRIBER IS NOT 17 OBTAINABLE FROM A SEVENTYTWO HOUR SUPPLY TO 18 A THIRTY DAY SUPPLY, PROVIDED CERTAIN 19 CONDITIONS ARE MET. 20 21 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South 22 Carolina: 23 24 SECTION 1. Section 404386(P) of the 1976 Code is amended to 25 read: 26 27 “(P) If a pharmacist receives a request for a prescription refill 28 and the pharmacist is unable to obtain refill authorization from the 29 prescriber, the pharmacist may dispense, a onetime emergency 30 refill once within a twelve month period, of up to a seventytwo 31 hour an emergency refill of up to a th irty day supply of the 32 prescribed medication if: 33 (1) the prescription is not for a controlled substance; 34 (2) the medication is essential to the maintenance of life or 35 to the continuation of therapy; 36 (3) in the pharmacist’s professional judgment, continuing the 37 therapy for seventytwo hours up to thirty days will produce no 38 undesirable health consequences or cause physical or mental 39 discomfort; 40 (4) the pharmacist properly records the dispensing; and 41 (5) the dispensing pharmacist notifies the prescriber of the 42 emergency dispensing refill and the amount of the refill, not to</p><p>[243] 2 1 exceed a thirty day supply, within seventytwo hours a reasonable 2 time, but no later than thirty days after the onetime emergency 3 once in twelve months refill dispensing.” 4 5 SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the 6 Governor. 7 XX 8</p><p>[243] 3</p>