2003 Wisconsin Act 54

Date of enactment: August 20, 2003
2003 Senate Bill 56 Date of publication*: September 4, 2003

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2001-02 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2003 WISCONSIN ACT 54

An Act to create 450.09 (7m) of the statutes; relating to: dispensing of returned prescription drugs by state prison pharmacies.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

54,1 Section 1. 450.09 (7m) of the statutes is created to read:

450.09 (7m) State prisons. A prescription drug that is returned to a pharmacy that primarily serves patients confined in a state prison may be dispensed to any patient in any state prison, but only if all of the following are satisfied:

(a) The prescription drug was never in the possession of the patient to whom it was originally prescribed.

(b) The prescription drug is returned in its original container.

(c) A pharmacist determines that the prescription drug has not been adulterated or misbranded.