RELFORD, CRUMP (Co-sponsors), WAGNER, GREEN, LEAKE, OVERSCHMIDT, HOWERTON,
RICHARDSON AND PARKER.
Read 1st time January 13, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 195.070, RSMo Supp. 1999, relating to prescriptions, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 195.070, RSMo Supp. 1999, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 195.070 and 335.078, to read as follows:
195.070. 1. A physician, podiatrist, dentist, registered professional nurse who is duly recognized by the state board of nursing as a registered nurse anesthetist pursuant to chapter 335, RSMo, or a registered optometrist certified to administer pharmaceutical agents as provided in section 336.220, RSMo, 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 a nurse or graduate physician under his direction and supervision.
2. A veterinarian, in good faith and in the course of his or her professional practice only, and not for use by a human being, may prescribe, administer, and dispense controlled substances and he or she may cause them to be administered by an assistant or orderly under his or her 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.
335.078. A registered professional nurse who is duly recognized by the state board of nursing as a registered
nurse anesthetist pursuant to chapter 335, may prescribe and administer those drugs and devices, including
controlled substances, customarily utilized by the nurse in his or her capacity and role as a registered nurse
anesthetist as part of medical procedures performed by physicians, podiatrists and dentists. Such authority shall
be exercisable within the peri-operative setting period of twenty-four hours prior to a scheduled surgery and
twenty-four hours following surgery. A registered nurse anesthetist may cause the same to be administered by
others duly licensed pursuant to this chapter within the same peri-operative setting and period.
Missouri House of Representatives