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WV HB2209

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/12/2025

Primary Sponsor

Brandon Steele

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Origin

House of Delegates

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Removes the requirement for pharmacies and pharmacists to report opioid antagonist (overdose reversal medication) sales to the Controlled Substances Monitoring Program Database

  • Eliminates the 72-hour dispensing limit that restricted prescribing practitioners from dispensing more than a 72-hour supply of controlled substances to their own patients, with no more than two such cycles in any 15-day period

  • Removes the requirement for the Board of Pharmacy to notify physicians about abuse-deterrent or practitioner-administered forms of buprenorphine when approved by the FDA

  • Maintains existing reporting requirements for Schedule II-V controlled substances dispensed by pharmacies, hospitals, and medical providers

Legislative Description

Relating to controlled substance monitoring; and removing a dispensing prohibition

Health

Last Action

To House Health and Human Resources

2/12/2025

Committee Referrals

Health & Human Resources2/12/2025

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