Regular Session 2015-2016 Senate Bill 1202 P.N. 1912

PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1741

PRINTER'S NO. 1912

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

1202

Session of

2015

INTRODUCED BY YAW, WOZNIAK, SABATINA, VOGEL, FARNESE, RAFFERTY,

HUTCHINSON, BLAKE, BARTOLOTTA, MENSCH, YUDICHAK, WAGNER,

FOLMER, VULAKOVICH, WARD, STEFANO, HUGHES, BROWNE, SCARNATI,

WILLIAMS AND SCHWANK, MAY 2, 2016

SENATOR BROWNE, APPROPRIATIONS, RE-REPORTED AS AMENDED,

JUNE 13, 2016

AN ACT

Amending the act of October 27, 2014 (P.L.2911, No.191),

entitled "An act providing for prescription drug monitoring;

creating the ABC-MAP Board; establishing the Achieving Better

Care by Monitoring All Prescriptions Program; and providing

for unlawful acts and penalties," providing for licensing

boards to require education in pain management and DISPENSING

AND prescribing practices of opioids.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. The act of October 27, 2014 (P.L.2911, No.191),

known as the Achieving Better Care by Monitoring All

Prescriptions Program (ABC-MAP) Act, is amended by adding a

section to read:

Section 9.1. Licensing boards to require education in pain

management and DISPENSING AND prescribing practices

of opioids.

(a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided for in

subsection (c), each licensing board in the Department of State

jurisdiction over professional licensees who are dispensers or

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prescribers shall require:

(1) Individuals applying for an initial license or

certification issued by the licensing board, which license or

certification authorizes the licensee to be a dispenser or

prescriber, shall submit, no later than 12 months after

obtaining an initial license or certification, documentation

acceptable to the licensing board of the completion of at

least two hours of education in pain management and at least

two hours of education in the DISPENSING OR prescribing

practices of opioids. The education may occur as part of the

applicants' professional degree educational program.

(2) Dispensers and prescribers applying for the renewal

of a license or certification issued by the licensing board

to complete at least two hours of education in pain

management or two hours of education in the DISPENSING OR

prescribing practices of opioids as a portion of the total

continuing education required for biennial renewal.

(b) Consultation with department.--Each licensing board

shall, in consultation with the department, approve the

curricula for the pain management and prescribing practices of

opioids education.

not apply to a dispenser or prescriber who is exempt from the

Drug Enforcement Administration's requirements for a

registration number under 21 CFR Ch. II (relating to Drug

Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice) and

applicable State law.

Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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