[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 36 (Monday, March 7, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S1321]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3445. Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mrs. Capito) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 524, to 
authorize the Attorney General to award grants to address the national 
epidemics of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ____. 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 patient; or
       ``(II) the practitioner that wrote the prescription, if the 
     practitioner wrote the prescription in accordance with 
     paragraph (1);

       ``(ii) the pharmacist partially filling the prescription 
     makes a notation of the partial filling and records it in the 
     same manner as a filling of the prescription, in accordance 
     with regulations prescribed by the Attorney General;
       ``(iii) the total quantity dispensed in all partial 
     fillings does not exceed the total quantity prescribed; and
       ``(iv) the partial filling is not prohibited under the law 
     of the State in which it occurs.
       ``(B) Remaining portions.--Remaining portions of a 
     partially filled prescription--
       ``(i) may be filled; and
       ``(ii) must be exhausted not later than 30 days after the 
     date on which the prescription is issued, except in the case 
     of a partially filled emergency prescription, the remaining 
     portions of which must be exhausted not later than 72 hours 
     after the prescription is issued.''.
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