[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2578 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2578

   To amend the Controlled Substances Act to permit certain partial 
                       fillings of prescriptions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 24, 2016

Ms. Warren (for herself and Mrs. Capito) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Controlled Substances Act to permit certain partial 
                       fillings of prescriptions.

    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 ``Reducing Unused Medications Act of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. PRESCRIPTIONS.

    Section 309(a) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 829(a)) 
is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1) In general.--'' before ``Except''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Partial filling of prescriptions.--
                    ``(A) In general.--A prescription for a controlled 
                substance in schedule II may be partially filled if--
                            ``(i) it is requested by--
                                    ``(I) the practitioner that wrote 
                                the prescription by making a notation 
                                on the face of the written 
                                prescription, written record of the 
                                emergency oral prescription, or in the 
                                electronic prescription record; or
                                    ``(II) the patient;
                            ``(ii) the pharmacist partially filling the 
                        prescription records the partial filling in the 
                        same manner as a filling of the prescription;
                            ``(iii) the pharmacist partially filling 
                        the prescription updates the record each time 
                        the prescription is partially filled;
                            ``(iv) the total quantity dispensed in all 
                        partial fillings does not exceed the total 
                        quantity prescribed; and
                            ``(v) the pharmacist notifies the 
                        practitioner that wrote the prescription of 
                        each partial fill.
                    ``(B) Remaining portions.--Remaining portions of a 
                partially filled prescription--
                            ``(i) may be filled; and
                            ``(ii) must be exhausted prior to, or on 
                        the same date that such prescription, if fully 
                        filled, would have been exhausted.''.
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