Tennessee News: New Label Law Allows Legend Drug Indications for All Patients

June 8, 2011 9:44 AM

Originally published in the June 2011 Tennessee Board of Pharmacy Newsletter

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 53-10- 110(a), is amended by deleting the subsection in its entirety and by substituting instead the following:

(a) Any person dispensing a legend drug for a patient shall include on the label of the container in which the legend drug is dispensed the indication or indications for which the drug is being prescribed if requested by the prescriber, patient, or patient’s caregiver and the prescriber, patient, or patient’s caregiver provides the indication or indications to the person dispensing the legend drug.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011, the public welfare requiring it.