YES:
MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Public Health , to which was referred House Bill 1315 , has
had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with the
recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
insert " product.".
Page 2, delete lines 12 through 13, begin a new line block indented
and insert:
" (2) The prescribing practitioner has:
(A) for a written prescription, signed on the line under
which the words "May substitute" appear; or
(B) for an electronically transmitted prescription,
electronically transmitted the instruction "May
substitute".".
Page 2, line 14, delete "patient or the patient's authorized
representative" and insert " pharmacist has informed the customer of
the substitution.".
Page 2, delete line 15.
Page 2, line 16, delete "physician" and insert " prescribing
practitioner".
Page 2, line 19, delete "physician" and insert " practitioner".
Page 2, line 20, before "biosimilar" insert " interchangeable".
Page 2, line 23, after "public" insert " Internet".
Page 2, delete lines 28 through 29, begin a new paragraph and
insert:
" Sec. 5. A written or electronic prescription for a biological
product must comply with the requirements under IC 16-42-22-6.".
Renumber all SECTIONS consecutively.
(Reference is to HB 1315 as introduced.)
and when so amended that said bill do pass.