CHAPTER 524

S.P. 376 - L.D. 1152

An Act To Authorize Collaborative Practice for Emergency

Contraception

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 32 MRSA c. 117, sub-c. 12 is enacted to read:

SUBCHAPTER 12

COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE FOR EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION

§13821.__Short title

This subchapter is known and may be cited as "the Collaborative Practice for Emergency Contraception Act."

§13822.__Collaborative practice authorized

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a licensed pharmacist who has completed the training required in section 13823 may initiate emergency contraception drug therapy in accordance with standardized procedures or protocols developed by the pharmacist and an authorized prescriber who is acting within the prescriber's scope of practice.

§13823.__Training required

Prior to performing any procedure authorized under this chapter, a pharmacist must have completed a training program on