37-7-1401. Department of public health and human services and board of pharmacy to create program for donation of unused prescription drugs -- rulemaking required. (1) The board of pharmacy shall, in consultation and cooperation with the department of public health and human services, create a program for the donation of prescription drugs collected from long-term care facilities to qualified patients.
     (2) For the purposes of the program created pursuant to subsection (1), prescription drugs, except those drugs defined as a dangerous drug in 50-32-101 or a drug designated as a precursor to a controlled substance in 50-32-401, unneeded by a resident or former resident of a long-term care facility may be donated by the long-term care facility to a provisional community pharmacy that provides or may provide prescription drugs to individuals who are qualified patients for transfer free of charge or at a reduced charge to those individuals.
     (3) This section does not amend or otherwise change the law applicable to the prescribing of prescription drugs, the sale of those drugs, or the licensing of long-term care facilities or pharmacies.
     (4) The board of pharmacy shall adopt rules to implement this part. The rules must address the subjects of collection and receipt of donated prescription drugs from residents of long-term care facilities, keeping of those drugs within the long-term care facility, transfer of the drugs to provisional community pharmacies, which pharmacies may be considered provisional community pharmacies that may sell or give the drugs to others, and the price for which the drugs may be sold. In adopting the rules, the board of pharmacy shall consider the ability of persons to pay for the drugs and the existence and operation of similar programs in other states.
     (5) As used in this part, the following definitions apply:
     (a) "Long-term care facility" has the meaning provided in 50-5-101.
     (b) "Provisional community pharmacy" means the practice of pharmacy at a site that has been approved by the board, including but not limited to federally qualified health centers as defined in 42 CFR 405.2401, where prescription drugs are dispensed to appropriately screened, qualified patients.
     (c) "Qualified patients" mean persons who are uninsured, indigent, or have insufficient funds to obtain needed prescription drugs.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 362, L. 2001.