TITLE 18. PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING

BOARD OF PHARMACY

Initial Agency Notice

Title of Regulation: 18VAC110-20. Regulations Governing the Practice of Pharmacy.

Statutory Authority: §§ 54.1-2400 and 54.1-3307 of the Code of Virginia.

Name of Petitioner: Eric Haas.

Nature of Petitioner's Request: Amend requirement for filing prescriptions to allow filing by date of initial dispensing or date of initial entry into pharmacy electronic recordkeeping system if such a system is employed by the pharmacy. The rationale for the request is that prescriptions are often placed into electronic systems for later dispensing, and retrieval and reassignment of the date is cumbersome and unnecessary and may promote errors in a patient's record.

Agency's Plan for Disposition of the Request: The board will receive public comment on the petition for rulemaking and will review the petition and any comment at its meeting on September 8, 2010, to make a decision on whether to initiate rulemaking.

Public Comment Deadline: July 21, 2010.

Agency Contact: Elizabeth Scott Russell, Executive Director, Board of Pharmacy, 9960 Mayland Drive, Richmond, VA 23233, telephone (804) 367-4456, FAX (804) 527-4472, or email scotti.russell@dhp.virginia.gov.

VA.R. Doc. No. R10-61; Filed May 19, 2010, 9:37 a.m.