[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. 3568 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3568

     To amend the Controlled Substances Act to address the use of 
                           intrathecal pumps.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 24 (legislative day, September 17), 2008

  Mr. Cornyn introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Controlled Substances Act to address the use of 
                           intrathecal pumps.

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

SECTION 1. INTRATHECAL PUMPS.

    Section 102(10) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
802(10)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The term `dispense' means to deliver'' 
        and inserting the following: ``(A) The term `dispense' means--
            ``(i) to deliver'';
            (2) by striking ``such delivery.'' and inserting the 
        following: ``such delivery; or
            ``(ii) to deliver a controlled substance by a pharmacy to a 
        practitioner, pursuant to the prescription of the practitioner, 
        where such controlled substance is to be administered through 
        the use of an intrathecal pump by the practitioner acting in 
        the usual course of professional practice.'';
            (3) by striking ``The term `dispenser' means'' and 
        inserting the following:
    ``(B) The term `dispenser' means''; and
            (4) by striking ``to an ultimate user or research 
        subject''.
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