FL H0671

Reduces the maximum number of registered pharmacy technicians a pharmacist may supervise from six to one, unless the board adopts guidelines allowing supervision of more than one but not more than three technicians.

Allows registered pharmacy technicians to initiate or receive communications with practitioners regarding refill authorization requests on behalf of patients.

Requires written prescriptions for controlled substances listed in Chapter 893 to be legibly dated in either numeric month/day/year format or with the abbreviated month written out on the face of the prescription.

Applies dating requirements to controlled substances in Schedules II, III, and IV, with provisions allowing pharmacists to dispense without prescriber verification if the pharmacy previously dispensed another prescription for the same person.

Takes effect July 1, 2013.