Act No. 536

Public Acts of 2004

Approved by the Governor

December 30, 2004

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 3, 2005

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 3, 2005

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Senators Jelinek, Hardiman, Goschka, Allen, Birkholz, Van Woerkom, Kuipers and Cropsey

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 908

AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled "An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," by amending sections 7405 and 17763 (MCL 333.7405 and 333.17763), section 7405 as amended by 1997 PA 153 and section 17763 as amended by 2004 PA 214.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 7405. (1) A person:

(a) Who is licensed by the administrator under this article shall not distribute, prescribe, or dispense a controlled substance in violation of section 7333.

(b) Who is a licensee shall not manufacture a controlled substance not authorized by his or her license or distribute, prescribe, or dispense a controlled substance not authorized by his or her license to another licensee or other authorized person, except as authorized by rules promulgated by the administrator.

(c) Shall not refuse an entry into any premises for an inspection authorized by this article.

(d) Shall not knowingly keep or maintain a store, shop, warehouse, dwelling, building, vehicle, boat, aircraft, or other structure or place, that is frequented by persons using controlled substances in violation of this article for the purpose of using controlled substances, or that is used for keeping or selling controlled substances in violation of this article.

(e) Who is a practitioner shall not dispense a prescription for a controlled substance written and signed or transmitted by a physician prescriber licensed to practice in a state other than Michigan, unless the prescription is issued by a physician prescriber who resides adjacent to the land border between this state and an adjoining state or resides in Illinois or Minnesota and who is authorized under the laws of that state to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery and to prescribe controlled substances and whose practice may extend into this state, but who does not maintain an office or designate a place to meet patients or receive calls in this state.

(2) A person who violates subsection (1) is subject to the penalties prescribed in section 7406.

Sec. 17763. In addition to the grounds set forth in part 161, the disciplinary subcommittee may fine, reprimand, or place a pharmacist licensee on probation, or deny, limit, suspend, or revoke the license of a pharmacist or order restitution or community service for a violation or abetting in a violation of this part or rules promulgated under this part, or for 1 or more of the following grounds:

(a) Employing the mail to sell, distribute, or deliver a drug that requires a prescription when the prescription for the drug is received by mail.

(b) Permitting the dispensing of prescriptions by an individual who is not a pharmacist, pharmacist intern, or dispensing prescriber.

(c) Permitting the dispensing of prescriptions by a pharmacist intern, except in the presence and under the personal charge of a pharmacist.

(d) Selling at auction drugs in bulk or in open packages unless the sale has been approved in accordance with rules of the board.

(e) Promoting a prescription drug to the public in any manner.

(f) In addition to the prohibition contained in section 7405(1)(e), dispensing a prescription for a controlled substance as defined in section 7104 that is written and signed or transmitted by a physician prescriber in a state other than Michigan, unless the prescription is issued by a physician prescriber who resides adjacent to the land border between this state and an adjoining state or resides in Illinois or Minnesota and who is authorized under the laws of that state to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery and to prescribe controlled substances and whose practice may extend into this state, but who does not maintain an office or designate a place to meet patients or receive calls in this state.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor