1.1.................... moves to amend H.F. No. 2446, the first engrossment, as follows:
1.2Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:
1.3 "Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 151.01, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
1.4 Subd. 5.
Drug. The term "drug" means all medicinal substances and preparations
1.5recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, or any revision
1.6thereof, and all substances and preparations intended for external and internal use in the
1.7diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals,
1.8and all substances and preparations, other than food, intended to affect the structure or
1.9any function of the bodies of humans or other animals.
The term drug shall also mean
1.10any compound, substance, or derivative that is not approved for human consumption by
1.11the United States Food and Drug Administration or specifically permitted for human
1.12consumption under Minnesota law that, when introduced into the body, induces an effect
1.13similar to that of a Schedule I or Schedule II controlled substance listed in section 152.02,
1.14subdivisions 2 and 3, or Minnesota Rules, parts 6800.4210 and 6800.4220, regardless of
1.15whether the substance is marketed for the purpose of human consumption.
1.16EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2014.
1.17 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 151.06, subdivision 1a, is amended to read:
1.18 Subd. 1a.
Disciplinary action Cease and desist orders. It shall be grounds for
1.19disciplinary action by the Board of Pharmacy against the registration of the pharmacy if
1.20the Board of Pharmacy determines that any person with supervisory responsibilities at the
1.21pharmacy sets policies that prevent a licensed pharmacist from providing drug utilization
1.22review and patient counseling as required by rules adopted under subdivision 1. The
1.23Board of Pharmacy shall follow the requirements of chapter 14 in any disciplinary actions
1.24taken under this section. (a) Whenever it appears to the board that a person has engaged in
1.25an act or practice constituting a violation of a law, rule, or other order related to the duties
2.1and responsibilities entrusted to the board, the board may issue and cause to be served
2.2upon the person an order requiring the person to cease and desist from violations.
2.3(b) The cease and desist order must state the reasons for the issuance of the order
2.4and must give reasonable notice of the rights of the person to request a hearing before
2.5an administrative law judge. A hearing must be held not later than ten days after the
2.6request for the hearing is received by the board. After the completion of the hearing,
2.7the administrative law judge shall issue a report within ten days. Within 15 days after
2.8receiving the report of the administrative law judge, the board shall issue a further order
2.9vacating or making permanent the cease and desist order. The time periods provided in
2.10this provision may be waived by agreement of the executive director of the board and the
2.11person against whom the cease and desist order was issued. If the person to whom a cease
2.12and desist order is issued fails to appear at the hearing after being duly notified, the person
2.13is in default, and the proceeding may be determined against that person upon consideration
2.14of the cease and desist order, the allegations of which may be considered to be true. Unless
2.15otherwise provided, all hearings must be conducted according to chapter 14. The board
2.16may adopt rules of procedure concerning all proceedings conducted under this subdivision.
2.17(c) If no hearing is requested within 30 days of service of the order, the cease and
2.18desist order will become permanent.
2.19(d) A cease and desist order issued under this subdivision remains in effect until
2.20it is modified or vacated by the board. The administrative proceeding provided by this
2.21subdivision, and subsequent appellate judicial review of that administrative proceeding,
2.22constitutes the exclusive remedy for determining whether the board properly issued the
2.23cease and desist order and whether the cease and desist order should be vacated or made
2.24permanent.
2.25EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2014, and applies to
2.26violations occurring on or after that date.
2.27 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 151.06, is amended by adding a subdivision
2.28to read:
2.29 Subd. 1b. Enforcement of violations of cease and desist orders. (a) Whenever
2.30the board under subdivision 1a seeks to enforce compliance with a cease and desist
2.31order that has been made permanent, the allegations of the cease and desist order are
2.32considered conclusively established for purposes of proceeding under subdivision 1a for
2.33permanent or temporary relief to enforce the cease and desist order. Whenever the board
2.34under subdivision 1a seeks to enforce compliance with a cease and desist order when a
2.35hearing or hearing request on the cease and desist order is pending, or the time has not
3.1yet expired to request a hearing on whether a cease and desist order should be vacated or
3.2made permanent, the allegations in the cease and desist order are considered conclusively
3.3established for the purposes of proceeding under subdivision 1a for temporary relief to
3.4enforce the cease and desist order.
3.5(b) Notwithstanding this subdivision or subdivision 1a, the person against whom
3.6the cease and desist order is issued and who has requested a hearing under subdivision 1a
3.7may, within 15 days after service of the cease and desist order, bring an action in Ramsey
3.8County District Court for issuance of an injunction to suspend enforcement of the cease
3.9and desist order pending a final decision of the board under subdivision 1a to vacate or
3.10make permanent the cease and desist order. The court shall determine whether to issue
3.11such an injunction based on traditional principles of temporary relief.
3.12EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2014, and applies to
3.13violations occurring on or after that date.
3.14 Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 151.26, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
3.15 Subdivision 1.
Generally. Nothing in this chapter shall subject a person duly
3.16licensed in this state to practice medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine, to inspection
3.17by the State Board of Pharmacy, nor prevent the person from administering drugs,
3.18medicines, chemicals, or poisons in the person's practice, nor prevent a duly licensed
3.19practitioner from furnishing to a patient properly packaged and labeled drugs, medicines,
3.20chemicals, or poisons as may be considered appropriate in the treatment of such patient;
3.21unless the person is engaged in the dispensing, sale, or distribution of drugs and the board
3.22provides reasonable notice of an inspection.
3.23Except for the provisions of section
151.37, nothing in this chapter applies to or
3.24interferes with the dispensing, in its original package and at no charge to the patient, of a
3.25legend drug, other than a controlled substance, that was packaged by a manufacturer and
3.26provided to the dispenser for distribution as a professional sample.
3.27Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the sale of drugs, medicines, chemicals, or
3.28poisons at wholesale to licensed physicians, dentists and veterinarians for use in their
3.29practice, nor to hospitals for use therein.
3.30Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the sale of drugs, chemicals, or poisons either
3.31at wholesale or retail for use for commercial purposes, or in the arts, nor interfere with the
3.32sale of insecticides, as defined in Minnesota Statutes 1974, section
24.069, and nothing in
3.33this chapter shall prevent the sale of common household preparations and other drugs,
3.34chemicals, and poisons sold exclusively for use for nonmedicinal purposes
; provided
3.35that this exception does not apply to any compound, substance, or derivative that is not
4.1approved for human consumption by the United States Food and Drug Administration
4.2or specifically permitted for human consumption under Minnesota law that, when
4.3introduced into the body, induces an effect similar to that of a Schedule I or Schedule II
4.4controlled substance listed in section 152.02, subdivisions 2 and 3, or Minnesota Rules,
4.5parts 6800.4210 and 6800.4220, regardless of whether the substance is marketed for the
4.6purpose of human consumption.
4.7Nothing in this chapter shall apply to or interfere with the vending or retailing
4.8of any nonprescription medicine or drug not otherwise prohibited by statute which is
4.9prepackaged, fully prepared by the manufacturer or producer for use by the consumer, and
4.10labeled in accordance with the requirements of the state or federal Food and Drug Act; nor
4.11to the manufacture, wholesaling, vending, or retailing of flavoring extracts, toilet articles,
4.12cosmetics, perfumes, spices, and other commonly used household articles of a chemical
4.13nature, for use for nonmedicinal purposes
; provided that this exception does not apply
4.14to any compound, substance, or derivative that is not approved for human consumption
4.15by the United States Food and Drug Administration or specifically permitted for human
4.16consumption under Minnesota law that, when introduced into the body, induces an effect
4.17similar to that of a Schedule I or Schedule II controlled substance listed in section 152.02,
4.18subdivisions 2 and 3, or Minnesota Rules, parts 6800.4210 and 6800.4220, regardless of
4.19whether the substance is marketed for the purpose of human consumption. Nothing in
4.20this chapter shall prevent the sale of drugs or medicines by licensed pharmacists at a
4.21discount to persons over 65 years of age.
4.22EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2014.
4.23 Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 151.34, is amended to read:
4.24151.34 PROHIBITED ACTS.
4.25It shall be unlawful to:
4.26(1) manufacture, sell or deliver, hold or offer for sale any drug that is adulterated
4.27or misbranded;
4.28(2) adulterate or misbrand any drug;
4.29(3) receive in commerce any drug that is adulterated or misbranded, and to deliver or
4.30proffer delivery thereof for pay or otherwise;
4.31(4) refuse to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample, or to
4.32permit access to or copying of any record as authorized by this chapter;
4.33(5) remove or dispose of a detained or embargoed article in violation of this chapter;
5.1(6) alter, mutilate, destroy, obliterate, or remove the whole or any part of the labeling
5.2of, or to do any other act with respect to a drug, if such act is done while such drug is held
5.3for sale and results in such drug being adulterated or misbranded;
5.4(7) use for a person's own advantage or to reveal other than to the board or its
5.5authorized representative or to the courts when required in any judicial proceeding under
5.6this chapter any information acquired under authority of this chapter concerning any
5.7method or process
which that is a trade secret and entitled to protection;
5.8(8) use on the labeling of any drug any representation or suggestion that an
5.9application with respect to such drug is effective under the federal act or that such drug
5.10complies with such provisions;
5.11(9) in the case of a manufacturer, packer, or distributor offering legend drugs for sale
5.12within this state, fail to maintain for transmittal or to transmit, to any practitioner licensed
5.13by applicable law to administer such drug who makes written request for information as to
5.14such drug, true and correct copies of all printed matter
which that is required to be included
5.15in any package in which that drug is distributed or sold, or such other printed matter as is
5.16approved under the federal act. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to exempt
5.17any person from any labeling requirement imposed by or under provisions of this chapter;
5.18(10) conduct a pharmacy without a pharmacist in charge;
5.19(11) dispense a legend drug without first obtaining a valid prescription for that drug;
5.20(12) conduct a pharmacy without proper registration with the board;
5.21(13) practice pharmacy without being licensed to do so by the board;
or
5.22(14) sell at retail federally restricted medical gases without proper registration with
5.23the board except as provided in this chapter
.; or
5.24(15) sell any compound, substance, or derivative that is not approved for human
5.25consumption by the United States Food and Drug Administration or specifically permitted
5.26for human consumption under Minnesota law that, when introduced into the body, induces
5.27an effect similar to that of a Schedule I or Schedule II controlled substance listed in
5.28section 152.02, subdivisions 2 and 3, or Minnesota Rules, parts 6800.4210 and 6800.4220,
5.29regardless of whether the substance is marketed for the purpose of human consumption.
5.30EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2014, and applies to sales
5.31on or after that date.
5.32 Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 151.35, is amended to read:
5.33151.35 DRUGS, ADULTERATION.
5.34A drug shall be deemed to be adulterated:
6.1(1) if it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance; or
6.2if it has been produced, prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions whereby it
6.3may have been rendered injurious to health, or whereby it may have been contaminated
6.4with filth; or if the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, its manufacture,
6.5processing, packing, or holding do not conform to or are not operated or administered
6.6in conformity with current good manufacturing practice as required under the federal
6.7act to assure that such drug is safe and has the identity, strength, quality, and purity
6.8characteristics, which it purports or is represented to possess;
or the facility in which it
6.9was produced was not registered by the United States Food and Drug Administration or
6.10licensed by the board; or, its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous
6.11or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health; or it bears
6.12or contains, for purposes of coloring only, a color additive which is unsafe within the
6.13meaning of the federal act, or it is a color additive, the intended use of which in or on drugs
6.14is for the purposes of coloring only, and is unsafe within the meaning of the federal act;
6.15(2) if it purports to be or is represented as a drug the name of which is recognized in
6.16the United States Pharmacopoeia or the National Formulary, and its strength differs from,
6.17or its quality or purity falls below, the standard set forth therein. Such determination as
6.18to strength, quality, or purity shall be made in accordance with the tests or methods of
6.19assay set forth in such compendium, or in the absence of or inadequacy of such tests or
6.20methods of assay, those prescribed under authority of the federal act. No drug defined
6.21in the United States Pharmacopoeia or the National Formulary shall be deemed to be
6.22adulterated under this paragraph because it differs from the standard of strength, quality,
6.23or purity therefor set forth in such compendium, if its difference in strength, quality, or
6.24purity from such standard is plainly stated on its label;
6.25(3) if it is not subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this section and its
6.26strength differs from, or its purity or quality differs from that which it purports or is
6.27represented to possess;
6.28(4) if any substance has been mixed or packed therewith so as to reduce its quality or
6.29strength, or substituted wholly or in part therefor.
6.30EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2014.
6.31 Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 151.36, is amended to read:
6.32151.36 DRUGS, MISBRANDING.
6.33A drug shall be deemed to be misbranded:
6.34(1) if its labeling is false or misleading in any particular;
7.1(2) if in package form and not dispensed pursuant to a prescription unless it bears
7.2a label containing (a) the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or
7.3distributor, (b) a statement of
identity ingredients, and (c) an accurate statement of the
7.4net quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count, provided,
7.5however, that under (c) reasonable variations shall be permitted, and exceptions as to
7.6small packages shall be allowed in accordance with the federal act;
7.7(3) if any word, statement, or other information required by or under authority of
7.8this chapter to appear on the label or labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such
7.9conspicuousness (as compared with other words, statements, designs or devices, in the
7.10labeling) and in such terms as to render it to be read and understood by the ordinary
7.11individual under customary conditions of purchase and use;
7.12(4) if it otherwise fails to meet the labeling requirements of the federal act.
7.13EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2014.
7.14 Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 152.02, subdivision 8b, is amended to read:
7.15 Subd. 8b.
Board of Pharmacy; expedited scheduling of additional substances.
7.16(a) The state Board of Pharmacy may, by rule, add a substance to Schedule I provided that
7.17it finds that the substance has a high potential for abuse, has no currently accepted medical
7.18use in the United States, has a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision,
7.19has known adverse health effects, and is currently available for use within the state. For
7.20the purposes of this subdivision only, the board may use the expedited rulemaking process
7.21under section
14.389.
The scheduling of a substance under this subdivision expires the
7.22day after the adjournment of the legislative session immediately following the substance's
7.23scheduling unless the legislature by law ratifies the action.
7.24(b) If the board schedules a substance under this subdivision, the board shall notify
7.25in a timely manner the chairs and ranking minority members of the senate and house of
7.26representatives committees having jurisdiction over criminal justice and health policy
7.27and finance of the action and the reasons for it. The notice must include a copy of the
7.28administrative law judge's decision on the matter.
7.29(c) This subdivision expires August 1, 2014.
7.30EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
7.31 Sec. 9.
[152.0273] SYNTHETIC DRUG SALES; MANDATORY RESTITUTION.
7.32The court shall order a person convicted of selling a controlled substance or analog
7.33of a controlled substance under the false pretense that the substance is legal to pay
8.1restitution for the costs and expenses resulting from the crime. Costs and expenses include,
8.2but are not limited to, the medical costs of persons who consumed the substances sold by
8.3the offender and the reasonable costs incurred by public and private entities that provided
8.4an emergency response to a person who consumed the substances sold by the offender.
8.5 Sec. 10.
MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.
8.6$50,000 in fiscal year 2014 and $50,000 in fiscal year 2015 are appropriated from the
8.7general fund to the Department of Human Services for increasing public awareness of the
8.8dangers of synthetic drugs. The educational awareness campaign should be designed to
8.9reach a broad audience but contain targeted messages for students and young adults. The
8.10commissioners of education, health, and human services shall cooperate in the formulation
8.11and implementation of the educational awareness campaign. If the appropriation for either
8.12year is insufficient, the appropriation for the other year is available for it.
8.13EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment."
8.14Amend the title accordingly