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Tex. Occ. Code § 562.112

PRACTITIONER-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP REQUIRED

Known as the Texas Pharmacy Act

The act spans §§ 551–569 (265 sections).

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1345 (S.B. 410), Sec. 22, eff

(a) A pharmacy shall ensure that its agents and employees, before dispensing a prescription, determine in the exercise of sound professional judgment that the prescription is a valid prescription. A pharmacy may not dispense a prescription drug if an agent or employee of the pharmacy knows or should know that the prescription was issued on the basis of an Internet-based or telephonic consultation without a valid practitioner-patient relationship.

(b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit a pharmacy from dispensing a prescription when a valid practitioner-patient relationship is not present in an emergency.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.