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ADOPTED
Senator
Balfour of the 9th offered the following amendment:
Amend
HB 246 (LC 33 0620) by inserting after "amend" on line 1 of page 1 the
following:
"Code
Section 26-4-60 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to grounds
for suspension, revocation, or refusal to grant licenses by the State Board of
Pharmacy, so as to change certain provisions relating to selling, distributing,
and delivering prescription drugs by mail or other common carriers; to
amend".
By
inserting between lines 6 and 7 of page 1 the following:
"SECTION
1.
Code
Section 26-4-60 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to grounds
for suspension, revocation, or refusal to grant licenses by the State Board of
Pharmacy, is amended by striking paragraph (11) of subsection (a) and inserting
in lieu thereof the following:
'(11)
Regularly employing the mails or other common carriers to sell, distribute, and
deliver a drug which requires a prescription directly to a patient;
provided,
however,
that
this provision shall not prohibit the use of the mails or other common carriers
to sell, distribute, and deliver a prescription drug directly to an institution
or to an
enrollee in a health benefits plan of a closed panel health maintenance
organization or its affiliates by a pharmacy which is operated by a health
maintenance organization and licensed under Code Section 26-4-110. For purposes
of this paragraph, the term 'closed panel health maintenance organization' means
a health maintenance organization that has an exclusive contract with a medical
group practice to provide or arrange for the provision of substantially all
physician services to enrollees in health benefit plans of the health
maintenance
organization;'"
By
redesignating Sections 1 and 2 as Sections 2 and 3, respectively.