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<title>Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB 254    </title>
<shortdesc>PHARMACY-GENERIC PRESCRIPTIONS</shortdesc>
<sponsor>
<sponsorhead1>House Sponsors</sponsorhead1><sponsors>Rep. Rosemary Mulligan</sponsors>
</sponsor>
<lastaction>
<statusdate>1/8/2013</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
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<synopsis>
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<reference>225 ILCS 85/25</reference><aliasreference>from Ch. 111, par. 4145</aliasreference><SynopsisText>     Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. In a provision concerning dispensing prescriptions, provides that if the physician or other authorized prescriber prescribes a drug and the pharmacy dispenses a generic, then the pharmacist must notify the patient or customer when he or she is dispensing a generic drug with the same active pharmaceutical ingredient by a different manufacturer than most recently previously dispensed for the patient by that pharmacy. Effective immediately.</SynopsisText></synopsis>
<actions>
<statusdate>1/24/2011</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Rosemary Mulligan</action>
<statusdate>1/25/2011</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>First Reading</action>
<statusdate>1/25/2011</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>2/8/2011</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Assigned to Consumer Protection Committee</action>
<statusdate>3/17/2011</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>1/8/2013</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
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