SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1255
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR DOUGHERTY.
Read 1st time February 16, 2004, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
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AN ACT
To repeal section 195.070, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to advanced practice nurses.
Section A. Section 195.070, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 195.070, to read as follows:
195.070. 1. A physician, podiatrist, dentist, or a registered optometrist certified to administer pharmaceutical agents as provided in section 336.220, RSMo, or an advanced practice nurse delegated the authority to prescribe controlled substances listed in schedules III, IV, or V of section 195.017 under a collaborative practice agreement, in good faith and in the course of his or her professional practice only, may prescribe, administer, and dispense controlled substances or he or she may cause the same to be administered or dispensed by an individual as authorized by statute.
2. A veterinarian, in good faith and in the course of his professional practice only, and not for use by a human being, may prescribe, administer, and dispense controlled substances and he may cause them to be administered by an assistant or orderly under his direction and supervision.
3. A practitioner shall not accept any portion of a controlled substance unused by a patient, for any reason, if such practitioner did not originally dispense the drug.
4. An individual practitioner may not prescribe or dispense a controlled substance for such practitioner's personal use except in a medical emergency.