SB 702 — An Act amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for telemedicine prohibited for medication safety.

PRINTER'S NO.   719

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                        SENATE BILL
                        No. 702
                                                Session of
                                                  2025

     INTRODUCED BY BROOKS, HUTCHINSON AND J. WARD, APRIL 30, 2025

     REFERRED TO HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, APRIL 30, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, providing for telemedicine prohibited
 3      for medication safety.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.    Title 35 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 7   Statutes is amended by adding a chapter to read:
 8                                CHAPTER 52C
 9              TELEMEDICINE PROHIBITED FOR MEDICATION SAFETY
10   Sec.
11   52C01.   Definitions.
12   52C02.   Prohibition.
13   § 52C01.   Definitions.
14      The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
15   shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
16   context clearly indicates otherwise:
17      "Health care facility."    The term shall have the same meaning
18   given to that term under 40 Pa.C.S. § 4802 (relating to
19   definitions).
 1      "Health care provider."   A health care facility, medical
 2   equipment supplier or person who is licensed, certified or
 3   otherwise regulated to provide health care services under the
 4   laws of this Commonwealth or another state.
 5      "Risk evaluation and mitigation strategy."   The medication
 6   safety program administered by the United States Food and Drug
 7   Administration under 21 U.S.C. § 355-1 (relating to risk
 8   evaluation and mitigation strategies).
 9      "Telemedicine."   The term shall have the same meaning given
10   to that term under 40 Pa.C.S. § 4802.
11   § 52C02.   Prohibition.
12      A health care provider may not use telemedicine to prescribe
13   a patient located in this Commonwealth a medication for which
14   the United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a risk
15   evaluation and mitigation strategy.
16      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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