SECTIONS 4231-4234 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 4231-4234

4231. (a) The board shall not renew a pharmacist license unless the
applicant submits proof satisfactory to the board that he or she has
successfully completed 30 hours of approved courses of continuing
pharmacy education during the two years preceding the application for
renewal.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the board shall not require
completion of continuing education for the first renewal of a
pharmacist license.
(c) If an applicant for renewal of a pharmacist license submits
the renewal application and payment of the renewal fee but does not
submit proof satisfactory to the board that the licensee has
completed 30 hours of continuing pharmacy education, the board shall
not renew the license and shall issue the applicant an inactive
pharmacist license. A licensee with an inactive pharmacist license
issued pursuant to this section may obtain an active pharmacist
license by paying the renewal fees due and submitting satisfactory
proof to the board that the licensee has completed 30 hours of
continuing pharmacy education.
(d) If, as part of an investigation or audit conducted by the
board, a pharmacist fails to provide documentation substantiating the
completion of continuing education as required in subdivision (a),
the board shall cancel the active pharmacist license and issue an
inactive pharmacist license in its place. A licensee with an inactive
pharmacist license issued pursuant to this section may obtain an
active pharmacist license by paying the renewal fees due and
submitting satisfactory proof to the board that the licensee has
completed 30 hours of continuing pharmacy education.

4232. (a) The courses shall be in the form of postgraduate studies,
institutes, seminars, lectures, conferences, workshops, extension
studies, correspondence courses, and other similar methods of
conveying continuing professional pharmacy education.
(b) The subject matter shall be pertinent to the socioeconomic and
legal aspects of health care, the properties and actions of drugs
and dosage forms and the etiology, and characteristics and
therapeutics of the disease state.
(c) The subject matter of the courses may include, but shall not
be limited to, the following: pharmacology, biochemistry, physiology,
pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacy administration, pharmacy
jurisprudence, public health and communicable diseases, professional
practice management, anatomy, histology, and any other subject matter
as represented in curricula of accredited colleges of pharmacy.

4234. The board may, in accordance with the intent of this article,
make exceptions from the requirements of this article in emergency
or hardship cases.