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NH SB504

Bill

Status

Introduced

11/21/2025

Primary Sponsor

David Rochefort

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Origin

Senate

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes licensed health care professionals to dispense up to a 30-day supply of noncontrolled oral anti-cancer medications in-office, provided a full-time licensed pharmacist is on staff for consultation and dispensing follows USP standards and applicable laws

  • Allows licensed advanced pharmacy technicians to engage in remote prescription processing under pharmacist supervision via electronic or other remote means

  • Removes the requirement for pharmacist name or initials to appear on labels for dispensed controlled drugs, while retaining other labeling requirements such as pharmacy information, prescriber name, and patient details

  • Changes license display requirements so pharmacist licenses must be "readily retrievable" rather than "conspicuously displayed," while pharmacy permits must still be posted

  • Expands the statutory definition of "practice of pharmacy" to explicitly include prescribing, ordering, administering, and interpreting laboratory tests and drugs within a pharmacist's scope of practice

  • Removes board of pharmacy authority to require additional credentials or approval for pharmacists participating in collaborative pharmacy practice agreements

Legislative Description

Relative to the practice of pharmacy and the dispensing of certain medications by pharmacists.

Last Action

Hearing: 03/11/2026, Room 100, State House, 09:00 am; Senate Calendar 9

3/4/2026

Committee Referrals

Health and Human Services11/21/2025

Full Bill Text

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