United States · Bill · S
S. 2578 (114th)
Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016
Introduced
24 February 2016
Last action
—
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
28 October 2025
Summary
Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016 This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow a pharmacist to partially fill a prescription for a schedule II controlled substance (such as a prescription opioid painkiller) at the request of a prescribing practitioner or patient. A pharmacist must record the partial filling in the same manner as a full filling, update the record with each partially filled prescription, and notify the prescribing practitioner. The total quantity dispensed in partial fillings must not exceed the total quantity prescribed. The remaining portion of a partially filled prescription may be filled and must be exhausted prior to, or on the same date that such prescription, if fully filled, would have been exhausted.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 24 February 2016
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 24 February 2016
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 24 February 2016
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2578
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/2578