This ordinance aims to create an Independent Pharmacy Task Force that will provide guidance on improving the City’s prescription drug purchasing and expanding access to affordable medications through an independent pharmacy network. It also seeks to revise licensing requirements to allow more pharmacies to participate in this network.
Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to establish an Independent Pharmacy Task Force to advise City bodies and officials on expanding the City’s wholesale prescription drug contracts and purchasing capacity, expanding the City’s 340B Drug Pricing Program coverage, creating an independent pharmacy network in the City including the benefits of membership and criteria for joining the network, and revising existing licensing requirements to allow more pharmacies to be members of an independent pharmacy network.
How it got here
The legislation to establish an Independent Pharmacy Task Force originated from the need to support independent pharmacies in San Francisco amidst closures of large chain drugstores.
Currently, there are no laws establishing an advisory body for expanding the City’s prescription drug purchasing capacity or creating an independent pharmacy network.
The Board of Supervisors introduced an ordinance to amend the Administrative Code to establish the Independent Pharmacy Task Force.
Supervisor Fielder was added as a co-sponsor to the ordinance by Supervisor Chan's office.
The ordinance was referred to the Department of Public Health for comments and reports.
The ordinance was filed as an inactive matter pursuant to Board Rule 3.41.
Reconstructed from attached documents & the official record