Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary This bill prohibits a physician or podiatrist from prescribing, dispensing, or administering medication for, or otherwise treating, the physician's or podiatrist's own self or immediate family, except in minor, self-limited, short-term, or urgent, emergency situations. However, a physician may prescribe, dispense, or administer medication for, or otherwise treat, immediate family within the physician's regular scope of practice if there is no other physician offering healthcare services at a location within 30 miles of the physician's primary practice site. This bill also prohibits a physician or podiatrist from prescribing, dispensing, or administering a scheduled drug to the physician's or podiatrist's own self or for immediate family. This bill requires a physician or podiatrist to maintain records of all treatment provided pursuant to this bill. ON APRIL 15, 2025, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 1205, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, make the following revisions to present law: Authorizes a physician or podiatrist to prescribe, dispense, or administer medication for, or otherwise treat, the physician's or podiatrist's own self or immediate family in short-term, minor, or acute, emergency situations. Authorizes a physician or podiatrist to prescribe, dispense, or administer a scheduled drug to the physician's or podiatrist's own self or immediate family only in acute, emergency situations. Authorizes a physician or podiatrist to prescribe, dispense, or administer medication for, or otherwise treat, immediate family within the physician's or podiatrist's regular scope of practice if there is no other physician or podiatrist offering healthcare services at a location within 30 miles of the physician's or podia
