The Texas Pharmacy Summit, a coalition of eight Texas pharmacy organizations including the Texas Pharmacy Association, met October 29 to continue collaborating on pharmacy’s priorities for the upcoming 2019 legislative session. The convening of the 86th Texas Legislature is right around the corner, January 8, and pharmacy has been working diligently during the past year to agree on legislative issues and proposed language.
Pharmacy is committed to work together to pass priority legislation including PBM reform, lowering the age to whom pharmacists can administer vaccines without a prescription, pharmacist’s ability to furnish medications for positive CLIA-waived tests (such as flu and strep) and non-diagnostic medications (such as tobacco cessation products, travel medications, oral hormonal contraceptives, vitamin D, and prenatal vitamins), collaborative practice clarification to allow a physician to delegate to any qualified and trained pharmacist in any setting, and electronic prescribing of controlled substances.
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