California Health and Safety Code 11164.1 – (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a prescription for a …
(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a prescription for a controlled substance issued by a prescriber in another state for delivery to a patient in another state may be dispensed by a California pharmacy, if the prescription conforms with the requirements for controlled substance prescriptions in the state in which the controlled substance was prescribed.
(2) A prescription for a Schedule II, Schedule III, Schedule IV, or Schedule V controlled substance dispensed pursuant to this subdivision shall be reported by the dispensing pharmacy to the Department of Justice in the manner prescribed by subdivision (d) of Section 11165.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 11164.1
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
(b) A pharmacy may dispense a prescription for a Schedule III, Schedule IV, or Schedule V controlled substance from an out-of-state prescriber pursuant to § 4005 of the Business and Professions Code and Section 1717 of Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations.
(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2021.
(Repealed (in Sec. 3) and added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 677, Sec. 4. (AB 528) Effective January 1, 2020. Section operative January 1, 2021, by its own provisions.)