New Hampshire HB 1735: relative to the use of funds in the drug forfeiture fund.

Bill Text

HB 1735-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

11Mar2026... 0850h

06/04/2026 2134s

2026 SESSION

 26-2962

 05/06

HOUSE BILL 1735-FN

AN ACT relative to the practice of pharmacy, the dispensing of certain medications by pharmacists, and permitting treatment of certain severe illness under the right to try act.

SPONSORS: Rep. Cole, Hills. 26; Rep. Kesselring, Hills. 18; Rep. Layon, Rock. 13; Rep. Notter, Hills. 12; Rep. Reinfurt, Hills. 29; Rep. D. McGuire, Merr. 14; Rep. Bernardy, Rock. 36; Rep. Ulery, Hills. 13; Rep. Morton, Hills. 39; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Sullivan, Dist 18; Sen. Innis, Dist 7

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 This bill:

 I. Authorizes the dispensing of up to a 30-day supply of noncontrolled oral anti-cancer medication by a licensed health care professional legally authorized to prescribe and administer medications to a patient under a provider's care or supervision subject to certain conditions.

 II. Amends the display requirements for certain licenses and permits.

 III. Authorizes licensed advanced pharmacy technicians to engage in remote processing.

 IV. Removes the requirement that a pharmacist's name or initials be on a label affixed to any controlled drug or prescription issued.

 V. Amends the definition of the "practice of pharmacy."

 VI. Removes certain authority of the board of pharmacy with respect to the regulation of collaborative pharmacy practice agreements.

 VII. Limits any examination requirement for licensure as an advanced pharmacy technician to scope of practice.

 VIII. Prohibits the pharmacy board from testing applicants on pharmacy jurisprudence or law.

 IX. Allows supervised certified pharmacy technicians to administer vaccines, and eliminates a requirement that vaccines be recommended by the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices before being administered by pharmacists, pharmacy interns, licensed advanced pharmacy technicians, or certified pharmacy technicians.

 X. Permits treatment of certain severe illness under the right to try act and directs the department of health and human services to adopt any rules necessary to implement the act. The bill also makes amendment of the act contingent upon a report by the department and approval by the fiscal committee.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

 Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

11Mar2026... 0850h

06/04/2026 2134s 26-2962

 05/06

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT relative to the practice of pharmacy, the dispensing of certain medications by pharmacists, and permitting treatment of certain severe illness under the right to try act.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 1 New Paragraph; Controlled Drug Act; Dealing In or Possessing Prescription Drugs. Amend RSA 318:42 by inserting after paragraph VII-b the following new paragraph:

 VII-c. The dispensing of up to a 30-day supply of noncontrolled oral anti-cancer medication by a licensed health care professional legally authorized to prescribe and administer medications to a patient under a provider's care or supervision so long as the following criteria are met: 

 (a) The dispensing clinic maintains on staff a full-time licensed pharmacist who is available for consultation with the prescribing provider and the patient.

 (b) In-office dispensing is conducted in a way consistent with United States Pharmacopeia standards as well as all relevant state and federal laws or rules.

 2 Pharmacists and Pharmacies; Display of Licenses. Amend RSA 318:28 to read as follows: 

 318:28 [Display] Availability of Licenses. All licenses as pharmacists shall [at all times be conspicuously displayed] be readily retrievable in the pharmacy where the licensee is engaged as such. 

 3 Pharmacists and Pharmacies; Licensure of Pharmacies. Amend RSA 318:39 to read as follows: 

 318:39 Application; Display. Application for a permit shall be made in such manner and in such form as the board may determine. The permit shall at all times be [exposed in a conspicuous place] posted in the pharmacy for which it is issued.

 4 Pharmacists and Pharmacies; Licensed Pharmacists; Remote Processing. Amend RSA 318:15-d, I to read as follows: 

 I. New Hampshire licensed pharmacists, licensed advanced pharmacy technicians, certified New Hampshire pharmacy technicians, or registered New Hampshire pharmacy interns may engage in remote processing, provided that all work requiring pharmacist supervision is supervised by a lic