An Act To Register Canadian Pharmacies To Provide Safe Reimportation of Prescription Drugs
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1651
Committee: Business, Research and Economic Development
Sponsors: DRISCOLL, BARTLETT, BURNS, CAMPBELL, JACKSON, MILLER, PARADIS, PINEAU, PINGREE, WEBSTER
Amends: 32 MRSA §13731

Legislative Document 
No. 1651 
H.P.1165 
House of Representatives, May 5, 2005 
An Act To Register Canadian Pharmacies To Provide Safe 
Reimportation of Prescription Drugs 
Reference to the Committee on Business, Research and Economic Development suggested 
and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative DRISCOLL of Westbrook. 
Cosponsored by Senator BARTLETT of Cumberland and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: BURNS of Berwick, CAMPBELL of Newfield, JACKSON of Fort Kent, 
MILLER of Somerville, PARADIS of Frenchville, PINEAU of Jay, PINGREE of North 
Haven, WEBSTER of Freeport. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA c. 603, sub-c. 5 is enacted to read: 
SUBCHAPTER 5 
PRESCRIPTIQN DRUGS FROM CANADIAN PHARMACIES 
§2699-A. 
Provision of information 
The department shall establish and maintain a website that 
includes: 
1. 
Information. 
Information 
concerning 
purchasing 
prescription 
drugs 
from 
Canadian 
pharmacies 
that 
have 
been 
.r.ecommended by the MAine Board of Pharmacy for inclusion on the 
website pursuant to Title 32, section 13751, subsection 5; and 
2. 
Links. 
Links to websites of Canadian pharmacies that 
have 
been 
recommended 
by 
the 
Maine 
Board 
of 
Pharmacy 
for 
inclusion on the website pursuant to Title 32, section 13751, 
subsection 5. 
Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §13731, sub-§7 is enacted to read: 
1. 
Canadian pharmacies. 
This section does not prohibit a 
Canadian pharmacy that is registered by the board as a mail order 
prescription drug outlet and that has been recommended by the 
board pursuant to section 13751, subsection 5 for inclusion on 
the website established and maintained pursuant to Title 22, 
~ection 2699-A from providing prescription drugs through mail 
order service to residents of the State in the manner set forth 
in this chapter. 
Sec.3. 32 MRS A §13751, sub-§§5 and 6 are enacted to read: 
5. 
Rotification of registration of Canadian pharmac.y. 
The 
board may register a Canadian pharmacy pursuant to this section. 
The 
board shall notify 
the 
Department 
of 
Health 
and 
Human 
Services each time the board registers a Canadian pharmacy as a 
mail order prescription drug outlet pursuant to this section and 
shall recommend that the Department of Health and Human Services 
include that pharmacy on the website established and maintained 
pursuant to Title 22, section 2699-A. 
6. 
Mail order prescription drug outlet. 
A mail order 
prescription drug o\,\tlet registered under this section may not 
sell, distribute or furnish to a resident of the State: 
A. 
A controlled substance; 
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B. 
A prescription drug that has not been approved by the 
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Administration 
or 
the 
Canadian 
government 
agency 
responsible 
for 
approving prescription 
drugs: 
C. 
A generic 
prescv.---P-tio~drug that has not been approved 
by the federal Food and Drug Administration; 
D. 
A prescription drug for which the federal Food and Drug 
Administration has withdrawn or suspended its approval; or 
E. 
A guantity of 
a prescription drug at one time that 
includes more than is prescribed to the patient as a 3-month 
supply of the drug. 
SUMMARY 
This bill authorizes the Maine Board of Pharmacy to register 
Canadian pharmacies to provide prescription drugs by mail order 
to residents of the State and directs that Canadian pharmacies 
that have been registered be included on a website established 
and maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services. 
The website must provide information to consumers concerning the 
Canadian pharmacies approved by the board and the web links for 
those pharmacies. 
In addition, this bill limits the drugs that a 
pharmacy located outside Maine that provides mail order service 
to residents of Maine may sell, distribute or furnish.