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An Act To Require Pharmacies To Provide Disposal Receptacles for Used Hypodermic Apparatuses
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §1341, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2007, c. 346, Pt. A, §1, is further amended to read:
 
2. Rules.   The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention shall adopt rules pursuant to the Maine Administrative Procedure Act establishing requirements for hypodermic apparatus exchange programs. The rules must include but are not limited to:
 
A. Procedures for the safe disposal of hypodermic apparatuses;
 
B. Tracking the number of hypodermic apparatuses distributed and collected;
 
C. Drug abuse prevention and treatment education; and
 
D. Measures to discourage the utilization of used hypodermic apparatuses.; and
 
E.  Requiring a pharmacy that dispenses hypodermic apparatuses to provide a container for the on-site disposal of used hypodermic apparatuses.
 
Rules adopted or amended pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
 
SUMMARY
This bill requires the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention to adopt rules to add a requirement that hypodermic apparatus exchange programs require a pharmacy that dispenses hypodermic apparatuses to provide a container for the on-site disposal of used hypodermic apparatuses.