{"code":"BPC","codeName":"Business and Professions Code","section":"4128.3","citation":"Bus. & Prof. Code, § 4128.3","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS [500. - 4999.202.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/division-2"},{"name":"CHAPTER 9. Pharmacy [4000. - 4427.8.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/division-2/chapter-9"},{"name":"ARTICLE 7.6. Centralized Hospital Packaging Pharmacies [4128. - 4128.7.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/division-2/chapter-9/article-7.6"}],"history":"Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 687, Sec. 2.   (AB 377)   Effective January 1, 2013.","effective":"2013-01-01","html":"<p>A centralized hospital packaging pharmacy may prepare and store a limited quantity of the unit dose drugs authorized by Section <a href=\"/bpc/4128\">4128</a> in advance of receipt of a patient-specific prescription in a quantity as is necessary to ensure continuity of care for an identified population of inpatients of the general acute care hospital based on a documented history of prescriptions for that patient population.</p>","text":"A centralized hospital packaging pharmacy may prepare and store a limited quantity of the unit dose drugs authorized by Section 4128 in advance of receipt of a patient-specific prescription in a quantity as is necessary to ensure continuity of care for an identified population of inpatients of the general acute care hospital based on a documented history of prescriptions for that patient population.","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/centralized-hospital-packaging-pharmacies-4128-3","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}