[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2825 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2825

   To amend the Controlled Substances Act to treat as dispensing the 
  delivery of a controlled substance by a pharmacy to a practitioner, 
pursuant to a patient-specific prescription of the practitioner, under 
                         certain circumstances.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 16, 2014

 Mr. Brown (for himself and 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 treat as dispensing the 
  delivery of a controlled substance by a pharmacy to a practitioner, 
pursuant to a patient-specific prescription of the practitioner, under 
                         certain circumstances.

    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 ``Ensuring Safe Access to Prescription 
Medication Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. DELIVERY OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES BY A PHARMACY TO A 
              PRACTITIONER PURSUANT TO A PATIENT-SPECIFIC PRESCRIPTION.

    Section 102(10) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
802(10)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(10) The term `dispense' means to 
        deliver'' and inserting the following:
    ``(10)(A) The term `dispense' means--
            ``(i) to deliver'';
            (2) by striking ``The term `dispenser' means a 
        practitioner'' and inserting the following:
    ``(B) The term `dispenser' means a practitioner'';
            (3) in subparagraph (A), as so designated--
                    (A) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
                ``; or''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(ii) to deliver a controlled substance by a pharmacy to a 
        practitioner, including the packaging, labeling, or compounding 
        necessary to prepare the substance for such delivery, if--
                    ``(I) such delivery is pursuant to a patient-
                specific prescription of the practitioner; and
                    ``(II) the practitioner has deemed that it is 
                medically necessary, acting in the usual course of 
                professional practice, for the controlled substance to 
                be administered by the practitioner to the patient.''; 
                and
            (4) in subparagraph (B), as so designated, by striking ``to 
        an ultimate user or research subject''.
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