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House Bill No. 5506

Public Act No. 22-118 96 of 739

Experiment Station, as described in section 22-79 of the general statutes, shall determine the staffing of the Office of Aquatic Invasive Species and hire a department head of such office not later than September 1, 2022. The office shall not have authority to issue any permit or fine. Sec. 69. Section 20-631 of the 2022 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2022): (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) "Care-giving institution" has the same meaning as provided in section 20-571; (2) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection; (3) "Collaborative drug therapy care plan" means a written document memorializing the outcome of the process through which one or more qualified pharmacists and one or more prescribing practitioners discuss, review and agree on an approach to achieve a patient's desired health outcome; (4) "Collaborative drug therapy management agreement" means an agreement between one or more qualified pharmacists and one or more prescribing practitioners to manage the drug therapy of, and devices prescribed to, individual patients, or a patient population, based on a written protocol or a collaborative drug therapy care plan; (5) "Collaborative drug therapy management policy" means a written policy adopted by a care-giving institution under which one or more qualified pharmacists manage the drug therapy of, and devices prescribed to, individual patients, or a patient population, based on a written protocol or a collaborative drug therapy care plan;