S.Amdt. 3353

SA 3353. 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 practitioner that wrote the prescription by
making a notation on the face of the written prescription, in
the written record of the emergency oral prescription, or in
the electronic prescription record; or
``(II) the patient;

``(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 pharmacist partially filling the prescription
updates the record each time the prescription is partially
filled;
``(iv) the total quantity dispensed in all partial fillings
does not exceed the total quantity prescribed; and
``(v) 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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