{"id":36406,"date":"2024-04-12T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36406"},"modified":"2024-04-12T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T18:06:18","slug":"prescription-drug-donation-program-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36406","title":{"rendered":"Prescription drug donation program created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska will establish a program to allow the donation of prescription drugs under a bill passed April 11.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32952\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32952\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32952\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenHughes_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Senator Jana Hughes, District 24. November 14, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668447653&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2022, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;123&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenHughes_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Jana Hughes&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Jana Hughes&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenHughes_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32952\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenHughes_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Jana Hughes\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenHughes_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenHughes_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Jana Hughes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB1035, sponsored by Sen. Jana Hughes of Seward, requires the state Department of Health and Human Services to create a prescription drug donation program to permit the donation and dispensing of qualifying prescription drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, medications may be donated by individuals or entities, including manufacturers and health care facilities. Donations must:<br \/>\n\u2022 undergo inspection prior to donation;<br \/>\n\u2022 be in original, unopened, sealed and tamper-evident packaging;<br \/>\n\u2022 bear an expiration date more than six months after the donation date, except in limited cases; and<br \/>\n\u2022 not be restricted for distribution by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Participation is voluntary and the bill includes civil and criminal protections for individuals and entities that donate medications. The department will designate a nonprofit organization to administer the program.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed LB1035 on a 47-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska will establish a program to allow the donation of prescription drugs under a bill passed April 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[282],"class_list":["post-36406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-jana-hughes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36408,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36406\/revisions\/36408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}