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WI AB842

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/16/2026

Primary Sponsor

Nancy VanderMeer

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Eliminates location restrictions on remote dispensing pharmacies, which were previously limited to health care facilities, health care practitioners' offices, correctional facilities, and juvenile justice facilities

  • Renames "remote dispensing sites" to "remotely supervised pharmacies" throughout Wisconsin pharmacy law

  • Allows any pharmacy to operate without a pharmacist physically present, provided the pharmacist supervises remotely and complies with Pharmacy Examining Board rules

  • Maintains the Pharmacy Examining Board's authority to promulgate rules governing remotely supervised pharmacies and to exempt them from requirements that apply to traditional pharmacies

  • Excludes remotely supervised pharmacies from the managing pharmacist limitation (which restricts pharmacists to managing one community and one institutional pharmacy)

Legislative Description

Remote dispensing sites under the pharmacy practice law.

Last Action

Laid on the table

2/19/2026

Committee Referrals

Rules2/12/2026
Health, Aging and Long-Term Care1/16/2026

Full Bill Text

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