Medicines Legislation

There is currently no federal legislation regulating the management of medicine at the end of life, but a number of states have passed and attempted to pass legislation.

Status:
Failed
Type:
Bill
Date:
February, 2009

SB 598, which was introduced February 2009, did not pass. This bill would have required drug manufacturers to establish take-back programs for prescription and nonprescription drugs from consumers, at no cost to the consumer. The program must be approved and is regulated by Department of Human Services. A manufacturer may not sell or allow sale of their drugs in Oregon unless they have an operating, approved take-back program.

The...

Status:
Passed
Type:
Resolution
Date:
September, 2008

Resolution of the Washington State Public Health Association supporting a secure, convenient medicine return program to reduce the public health and environmental health impacts of unwanted medicines. 2008.

Status:
Passed
Type:
Law
Date:
October, 2007

SB 966 was signed into law in October 2007 as Chapter 542, Statutes of 2007. This bill begins the process of establishing a state-wide solution for the growing problem of improper disposal of unused and expired pharmaceutical drugs by creating model disposal programs and requiring the California Integrated Waste Management...

Status:
Passed
Type:
Law
Date:
October, 2004

On October 7, 2004, British Columbia passed the Recycling Regulation of the Environmental Management Act (B.C. Reg. 449/2004), a single, results-based framework that engages industry in new ways by shifting responsibility for environmentally sound product end-of-life management and recycling to producers and consumers.

The Act requires producers of designated products to submit a stewardship plan for approval by the BC Ministry of Environment.  All producers are...

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