Conference committee named 2 months ago
By Andy Metzger
- Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 7:45 PM EST
- STATE HOUSE, BOSTON - Appointed in early November, the conference committee charged with finalizing a bill to tune up the state’s regulation of compounding pharmacies will meet for the first time this week.
“We’re meeting soon,” said Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, a Jamaica Plain Democrat and House chairman of the Committee on Public Health who drafted the House bill.
The House passed its compounding pharmacy bill Oct. 2, 2013 on a vote of 157-0. On Oct. 30, 2013 the Senate voted 38-0 for its bill. The negotiating team was named Nov. 7, or about two months ago.
Four major bills, including the pharmacy regulation legislation, passed the House and Senate in differing forms last year but have failed to emerge from six-member conference committees.
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