It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows

SECTION 1. Section 5-19-20 of the General Laws in Chapter 5-19 entitled "Pharmacies" is hereby amended to read as follows:

5-19-20. Store license -- Supervision by pharmacist. -- {ADD (a) ADD} No person, co-partnership, or corporation shall conduct and maintain any open shop or store for the purpose of retailing, compounding, or dispensing drugs, medicines or poisons, without first obtaining and having in force from the board of pharmacy a license to do so, the license to be issued to the pharmacist registered by the board of pharmacy at that open shop or store, or as having supervision over that shop or store or shops or stores. If a person, co-partnership, or corporation conduct and maintain more than one shop or store, he, she or it shall employ at least one registered pharmacist and shall have a separate registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharmacist at each shop or store at all times when open.

{ADD (b) Pharmacies operated by a person, co-partnership or corporation license pursuant to this chapter may refill prescriptions which have been previously dispensed by another pharmacy, provided that prior to dispensing a refill the pharmacy refilling the prescription verifies the appropriateness of the refill through a centralized database.

(c) Disclosure of prescription information to any other person(s), other than agents of properly licensed pharmacies pursuant to section (b), is prohibited. ADD}

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.