SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The state Assembly has approved a bill that would expand the services California pharmacists can provide to patients.
The legislation is part of what had been a package from Democratic Sen. Ed Hernandez of West Covina intended to help address the state's expected shortage of primary care physicians. Under SB493, pharmacists could order certain laboratory tests and prescribe smoking-cessation drugs.
Two other bills from Hernandez aimed at expanding the roles of nurse practitioners and optometrists failed to pass out of Assembly committees.
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