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HOUSE BILL NO. 389

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H0389aa...............................................by HEALTH AND WELFARE
PRESCRIPTION DATABASE - Amends existing law to revise those persons to whom
the database information is available; to provide criminal penalties, in
addition to any other civil or administrative penalty or sanction
authorized by law; and to provide exceptions.

01/23    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/24    Rpt prt - to Jud
02/14    Rpt out - to Gen Ord
02/20    Rpt out amen - to engros
02/21    Rpt engros - 1st rdg - to 2nd rdg as amen
02/22    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg as amen
02/25    3rd rdg as amen - PASSED - 64-0-6
      AYES -- Andrus, Barrett, Bayer, Bedke, Bell, Bilbao, Black, Block,
      Bock, Boe, Bolz, Bowers, Brackett, Chadderdon, Chavez, Chew, Clark,
      Collins, Crane, Durst, Eskridge, Hagedorn, Hart, Harwood, Henbest,
      Henderson, Jaquet, Killen, King, Labrador, Lake, LeFavour,
      Loertscher, Luker, Marriott, Mathews, McGeachin, Mortimer, Nielsen,
      Nonini, Pasley-Stuart, Patrick, Pence, Raybould, Ringo, Roberts,
      Rusche, Sayler, Schaefer, Shepherd(02), Shepherd(08), Shirley,
      Shively, Smith(24), Smith(30)(Stanek), Snodgrass, Stevenson, Thayn,
      Thomas, Vander Woude, Wills, Wood(27), Wood(35), Mr. Speaker
      NAYS -- None
      Absent and excused -- Anderson, Bradford, Kren, Moyle, Ruchti, Trail
    Floor Sponsor - Nielsen
    Title apvd - to Senate
02/26    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Health/Wel
02/28    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/29    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/06    3rd rdg - PASSED - 34-0-1
      AYES -- Andreason, Bair, Bastian, Bilyeu, Broadsword, Burkett,
      Cameron, Coiner, Corder, Darrington, Fulcher, Gannon, Geddes, Goedde,
      Hammond, Heinrich, Hill, Jorgenson, Kelly, Keough, Langhorst, Little,
      Lodge, Malepeai(Sagness), McGee, McKague, McKenzie, Pearce,
      Richardson, Schroeder, Siddoway, Stegner, Stennett, Werk
      NAYS -- None
      Absent and excused -- Davis
    Floor Sponsor - Werk
    Title apvd - to House
03/07    To enrol
03/10    Rpt enrol - Sp signed
03/11    Pres signed - To Governor
03/17    Governor signed
         Session Law Chapter 129
         Effective: 07/01/08

Bill Text




                                                                       
  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   Second Regular Session - 2008

                                                                       

                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 389

                              BY HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE

  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES  PRESCRIPTIONS  DATABASE;  AMENDING  SECTION
  3        37-2726,  IDAHO  CODE, TO PROVIDE CRIMINAL PENALTIES WHICH ARE IN ADDITION
  4        TO ANY OTHER CIVIL OR ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY  OR  SANCTION  AUTHORIZED  BY
  5        LAW,  FOR KNOWINGLY OBTAINING, ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN OR REDISCLOSING INFOR-
  6        MATION OBTAINED FROM THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE DATABASE.

  7    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

  8        SECTION 1.  That Section 37-2726, Idaho Code, be, and the same  is  hereby
  9    amended to read as follows:

 10        37-2726.  FILING  PRESCRIPTIONS -- DATABASE. (1) All controlled substances
 11    prescriptions shall be filed with the board electronically in a format  estab-
 12    lished  by  the  board or by other method as required by board rule. The board
 13    may require the filing of other prescriptions by board rule. The  board  shall
 14    establish  by rule the information to be submitted pursuant to the purposes of
 15    this section and the purposes set forth in section 37-2730A, Idaho Code.
 16        (2)  The board shall create, operate and maintain a controlled  substances
 17    prescriptions  database  containing the information submitted pursuant to sub-
 18    section (1) of this section, to be used for the purposes and  subject  to  the
 19    terms,  conditions  and  immunities described in section 37-2730A, Idaho Code.
 20    The database information must be made available only to the following:
 21        (a)  Authorized individuals employed by the boards  responsible  for  con-
 22        ducting  investigations related to the licensing and discipline of practi-
 23        tioners;
 24        (b)  Peace officers employed by federal, state and local  law  enforcement
 25        agencies  engaged as a specified duty of their employment in enforcing law
 26        regulating controlled substances;
 27        (c)  Authorized individuals under  the  direction  of  the  department  of
 28        health  and  welfare  for  the  purpose  of  monitoring and enforcing that
 29        department's responsibilities under the public health, medicare and medic-
 30        aid laws;
 31        (d)  A licensed practitioner having authority to prescribe controlled sub-
 32        stances, to the extent the information relates specifically to  a  current
 33        patient  of  the  practitioner, to whom the practitioner is prescribing or
 34        considering prescribing any controlled substance;
 35        (e)  A licensed pharmacist having authority to  dispense  controlled  sub-
 36        stances  to  the  extent the information relates specifically to a current
 37        patient to whom that pharmacist is dispensing  or  considering  dispensing
 38        any controlled substance;
 39        (f)  An  individual  who  is  the recipient of a controlled substance pre-
 40        scription entered into the database or that  individual's  attorney,  upon
 41        providing  evidence satisfactory to the board that the individual request-
 42        ing the information is in fact the person about whom the  data  entry  was
 43        made or the attorney for that person; and

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  1        (g)  Upon the lawful order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
  2        (3)  The board must maintain records on the information disclosed from the
  3    database, including:
  4        (a)  The identification of each individual who requests or receives infor-
  5        mation from the database and who that individual represents;
  6        (b)  The information provided to each such individual; and
  7        (c)  The date and time the information is requested or provided.
  8        (4)  The board shall promulgate rules to ensure that only authorized indi-
  9    viduals have access to the database.
 10        (5)  Notwithstanding section 37-2730A(4), Idaho Code, any person who know-
 11    ingly obtains, attempts to obtain or rediscloses information obtained from the
 12    controlled  substances  prescriptions database for a purpose not authorized by
 13    subsection (2) of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by
 14    imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by a  fine  not
 15    exceeding  two thousand dollars ($2,000), or both. The foregoing criminal pen-
 16    alty is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other civil or  administrative
 17    penalty or sanction authorized by law.
 18        (6)  All  costs  associated with recording and submitting data as required
 19    in this section are assumed by the dispensing practitioner recording and  sub-
 20    mitting the data.
 21        (67)  The  definitions  set  forth  in  section 37-2701, Idaho Code, shall
 22    apply to this section.

Amendment




                                                                       
  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   Second Regular Session - 2008

                                                                       

                                                     Moved by    Nielsen

                                                     Seconded by   Clark


                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                              HOUSE AMENDMENT TO H.B. NO. 389

  1                                AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1
  2        On page 1 of the printed bill, in  line  43,   delete  "and"  and  insert:
  3    "and".
  4        On page 2, in line 1, following "jurisdiction" insert: "; and
  5        (h)  Prosecuting  attorneys,  deputy  prosecuting  attorneys  and  special
  6        prosecutors  of  a  county or city and special assistant attorneys general
  7        from the office of the attorney general engaged in enforcing law  regulat-
  8        ing controlled substances";
  9    delete lines 10 through 17 and insert:
 10        "(5)  Any  person  who  knowingly  misrepresents to the board that he is a
 11    person entitled under subsection (2) of this section  to  receive  information
 12    from  the  controlled  substances  prescriptions database under the conditions
 13    therein provided, and who receives information from the controlled  substances
 14    prescriptions  database  resulting from that misrepresentation shall be guilty
 15    of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail  not  to  exceed
 16    six  (6)  months, or by a fine not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000), or
 17    both. The foregoing criminal penalty is in addition to, and not  in  lieu  of,
 18    any other civil or administrative penalty or sanction authorized by law.
 19        (6)  Any person in possession, whether lawfully or unlawfully, of informa-
 20    tion from the controlled substances prescriptions database which identifies an
 21    individual  patient  and  who knowingly discloses such information to a person
 22    not authorized to receive or use such information under any state  or  federal
 23    law,  rule  or  regulation; the lawful order of a court of competent jurisdic-
 24    tion; or written authorization of the individual patient shall be guilty of  a
 25    misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed six (6)
 26    months, or by a fine not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000), or both. The
 27    foregoing  criminal  penalty  is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other
 28    civil or administrative penalty or sanction authorized by law. The  provisions
 29    of  this subsection shall not apply to disclosure of individual patient infor-
 30    mation by the patient himself. The provisions of  this  subsection  shall  not
 31    apply to disclosure of information by a prosecuting attorney, deputy prosecut-
 32    ing  attorney or special prosecutor of a county or city or by a special assis-
 33    tant attorney general from the office of the attorney general in the course of
 34    a criminal proceeding, whether preconviction or postconviction.";
 35    in line 18, delete "(6)" and insert: "(7)"; and in line 21, delete "(67)"  and
 36    insert: "(68)".

 37                                 CORRECTIONS TO TITLE
 38        On  page  1, in line 3, following "CODE," insert: "TO REVISE THOSE PERSONS
 39    TO WHOM DATABASE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE,"; delete lines 5 and 6 and  insert:
 40    "LAW AND TO PROVIDE EXCEPTIONS.".

Engrossed Bill (Original Bill with Amendment(s) Incorporated)




                                                                       
  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   Second Regular Session - 2008

                                                                       

                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                               HOUSE BILL NO. 389, As Amended

                              BY HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE

  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES  PRESCRIPTIONS  DATABASE;  AMENDING  SECTION
  3        37-2726,  IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE THOSE PERSONS TO WHOM DATABASE INFORMATION
  4        IS AVAILABLE, TO PROVIDE CRIMINAL PENALTIES WHICH ARE IN ADDITION  TO  ANY
  5        OTHER CIVIL OR ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY OR SANCTION AUTHORIZED BY LAW AND TO
  6        PROVIDE EXCEPTIONS.

  7    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

  8        SECTION  1.  That  Section 37-2726, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  9    amended to read as follows:

 10        37-2726.  FILING PRESCRIPTIONS -- DATABASE. (1) All controlled  substances
 11    prescriptions  shall be filed with the board electronically in a format estab-
 12    lished by the board or by other method as required by board  rule.  The  board
 13    may  require  the filing of other prescriptions by board rule. The board shall
 14    establish by rule the information to be submitted pursuant to the purposes  of
 15    this section and the purposes set forth in section 37-2730A, Idaho Code.
 16        (2)  The  board shall create, operate and maintain a controlled substances
 17    prescriptions database containing the information submitted pursuant  to  sub-
 18    section  (1)  of  this section, to be used for the purposes and subject to the
 19    terms, conditions and immunities described in section  37-2730A,  Idaho  Code.
 20    The database information must be made available only to the following:
 21        (a)  Authorized  individuals  employed  by the boards responsible for con-
 22        ducting investigations related to the licensing and discipline of  practi-
 23        tioners;
 24        (b)  Peace  officers  employed by federal, state and local law enforcement
 25        agencies engaged as a specified duty of their employment in enforcing  law
 26        regulating controlled substances;
 27        (c)  Authorized  individuals  under  the  direction  of  the department of
 28        health and welfare for  the  purpose  of  monitoring  and  enforcing  that
 29        department's responsibilities under the public health, medicare and medic-
 30        aid laws;
 31        (d)  A licensed practitioner having authority to prescribe controlled sub-
 32        stances,  to  the extent the information relates specifically to a current
 33        patient of the practitioner, to whom the practitioner  is  prescribing  or
 34        considering prescribing any controlled substance;
 35        (e)  A  licensed  pharmacist  having authority to dispense controlled sub-
 36        stances to the extent the information relates specifically  to  a  current
 37        patient  to  whom  that pharmacist is dispensing or considering dispensing
 38        any controlled substance;
 39        (f)  An individual who is the recipient of  a  controlled  substance  pre-
 40        scription  entered  into  the database or that individual's attorney, upon
 41        providing evidence satisfactory to the board that the individual  request-
 42        ing  the  information  is in fact the person about whom the data entry was
 43        made or the attorney for that person; and

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  1        (g)  Upon the lawful order of a court of competent jurisdiction; and
  2        (h)  Prosecuting  attorneys,  deputy  prosecuting  attorneys  and  special
  3        prosecutors of a county or city and special  assistant  attorneys  general
  4        from  the office of the attorney general engaged in enforcing law regulat-
  5        ing controlled substances.
  6        (3)  The board must maintain records on the information disclosed from the
  7    database, including:
  8        (a)  The identification of each individual who requests or receives infor-
  9        mation from the database and who that individual represents;
 10        (b)  The information provided to each such individual; and
 11        (c)  The date and time the information is requested or provided.
 12        (4)  The board shall promulgate rules to ensure that only authorized indi-
 13    viduals have access to the database.
 14        (5)  Any person who knowingly misrepresents to the board that he is a per-
 15    son entitled under subsection (2) of this section to receive information  from
 16    the  controlled substances prescriptions database under the conditions therein
 17    provided, and who receives information from  the  controlled  substances  pre-
 18    scriptions database resulting from that misrepresentation shall be guilty of a
 19    misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed six (6)
 20    months, or by a fine not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000), or both. The
 21    foregoing  criminal  penalty  is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other
 22    civil or administrative penalty or sanction authorized by law.
 23        (6)  Any person in possession, whether lawfully or unlawfully, of informa-
 24    tion from the controlled substances prescriptions database which identifies an
 25    individual patient and who knowingly discloses such information  to  a  person
 26    not  authorized  to receive or use such information under any state or federal
 27    law, rule or regulation; the lawful order of a court  of  competent  jurisdic-
 28    tion;  or written authorization of the individual patient shall be guilty of a
 29    misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed six (6)
 30    months, or by a fine not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000), or both. The
 31    foregoing criminal penalty is in addition to, and not in lieu  of,  any  other
 32    civil  or administrative penalty or sanction authorized by law. The provisions
 33    of this subsection shall not apply to disclosure of individual patient  infor-
 34    mation  by  the  patient  himself. The provisions of this subsection shall not
 35    apply to disclosure of information by a prosecuting attorney, deputy prosecut-
 36    ing attorney or special prosecutor of a county or city or by a special  assis-
 37    tant attorney general from the office of the attorney general in the course of
 38    a criminal proceeding, whether preconviction or postconviction.
 39        (7)  All  costs  associated with recording and submitting data as required
 40    in this section are assumed by the dispensing practitioner recording and  sub-
 41    mitting the data.
 42        (68)  The  definitions  set  forth  in  section 37-2701, Idaho Code, shall
 43    apply to this section.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                             RS 17389

The proposed legislation amends Section 37-2726, Idaho Code, to
include county or city prosecuting attorneys, deputy prosecuting
attorneys and special prosecutors and to include special assistant
deputy attorneys-general from the office of the attorney general
among those persons statutorily authorized to obtain information
from the controlled substances prescriptions database, so long as
the information specifically relates to a criminal investigation or
criminal prosecution of a violation of Chapter 27, Title 37, Idaho
Code.  The proposed legislation also addresses the absence in the
statute of criminal penalties when a person wrongfully obtains
information from the controlled substances prescriptions database
or wrongfully discloses information obtained from the database to
third persons.  Criminal sanctions are a deterrent to violations of
personal privacy.  The proposed legislation makes it a misdemeanor
punishable by six months imprisonment or a fine not to exceed
$2,000 or both when a person knowingly misrepresents to the board
of pharmacy that they are a person authorized under Section 37-
2726(2), Idaho Code, to receive information from the controlled
substances prescriptions database under the conditions therein
provided and then receives information from the database resulting
from the misrepresentation.  The maximum fine is $1,000 higher than
the maximum fine otherwise provided for under Section 18-113, Idaho
Code, in cases of misdemeanors where a different punishment is not
prescribed in the code.  The proposed maximum criminal fine of
$2,000 is similar to the maximum administrative fine of $2,000 that
the board is authorized under Section 54-1728(1)(f) to impose in
cases of professional discipline.  The proposed criminal penalty of
six months imprisonment is the same length of imprisonment provided
for misdemeanors under Section 18-113, Idaho Code.  The proposed
legislation also makes it a misdemeanor punishable in the same
manner as the misrepresentation offense, for a person in possession
of information from the database regarding an individual patient,
whether that possession is lawful or unlawful, to disclose
information regarding that patient to any third person not legally
entitled to receive the information.


                           FISCAL NOTE

None.






Contact
Name: Mark Johnston, Executive Director, Idaho Board of Pharmacy 
Phone: (208) 334-2356


STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                       H 389aa   


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