[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3018 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3018

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2009

   Mr. Gohmert (for himself, Mr. Scott of Virginia, and Mr. Smith of 
    Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
   the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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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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