[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 598 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 598

    To guarantee the ability of licensed pharmacists to conduct the 
   practice of pharmacy compounding and to ensure their right to the 
necessary supply of bulk drug products, subject to applicable State and 
                             Federal laws.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 20, 1995

    Mr. Brewster  (for himself, Mr. DeLay, and Mr. Fields of Texas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To guarantee the ability of licensed pharmacists to conduct the 
   practice of pharmacy compounding and to ensure their right to the 
necessary supply of bulk drug products, subject to applicable State and 
                             Federal laws.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pharmacy Compounding Preservation 
Act of 1994.''

SEC. 2. APPLICATIONS OF STATE AND FEDERAL LAW TO THE PRACTICE OF 
              PHARMACY COMPOUNDING.

    Amend section 210(gg) of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. 
321(gg): ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions 
of this Act do not apply to licensed retail pharmacies that compound 
drugs in conformance with applicable local laws regulating the practice 
of pharmacy and medicine. The provisions of this Act do not apply to 
bulk drug products that are intended to be used by pharmacies for 
compounding, except to the extent that such provisions relate directly 
to the purity and quality of such bulk drug products.''.
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