Current through Rules and Regulations filed through March 20, 2024
(1)
Effective August 1, 2011, a pharmacy may only employ registered pharmacy
technicians to perform pharmacy technician duties.
(2) In order to be registered as a Pharmacy
Technician in this State, an applicant shall:
(a) Submit an application to the Board on the
form prescribed by the Board;
(b)
Attest that applicant is at least 17 years old;
(c) Attest that applicant is currently
enrolled in high school, or has a high school diploma, or has a GED, or has a
postsecondary education or college degree;
(d) Consent to, provide the necessary
information to conduct, and pay for a background check to be conducted by the
Board, its agent or a firm or firms approved by the Board, which background
check will include a criminal history, driver license history and other
information as the Board deems necessary, and will authorize the Board and the
Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency to receive the results;
(e) Submit the name and address of employer
and place of employment;
(f) Pay
application fees; and
(g) If
certified, submit evidence of training supporting designation as
certified.
(3) The Board
may deny registration or conditionally grant registration for any of the
reasons set forth in Code sections
26-4-60 or
43-1-19. This includes
convictions, pleas of nolo contendere and guilty pleas related to misdemeanor
crimes of moral turpitude or marijuana and to felonies. In addition, no
pharmacist whose license has been denied, revoked, suspended, or restricted for
disciplinary purposes shall be eligible to be registered as a pharmacy
technician.
(4) The denial of an
application for registration as a pharmacy technician shall not be a contested
case and the applicant shall not be entitled to a hearing under the Georgia
Administrative Procedures Action, O.C.G.A. T. 50, Ch. 13, but such applicant
may be entitled to an appearance before the Board.
(5) A registration, once issued, is renewable
biennially, upon payment of a fee. Registrations shall expire on June 30th of
each odd-numbered year. If the application for renewal is not made and the fee
paid before September 1st of the odd-numbered year, the registration shall
lapse and shall not be renewed. An application for a new registration shall be
required.
(6) On and after July 1,
2023, as a requirement for the biennial renewal of his/her registration, a
pharmacy technician must complete not less than twenty (20) hours of approved
continuing education.
(a) "Approved continuing
education" means courses approved by the Board as described in Rule
480-3-.03.
(b) One hour of C.E. is defined as 0.1 C.E.U.
Each pharmacy technician in the State of Georgia must obtain 20 hours of
continuing education or 2.0 C.E.U.'s per biennium for registration renewal.
1. Certificates documenting 20 hours of
approved continuing education or 2.0 C.E.U.'s must be completed and date within
the biennium.
(c) During
the technician's first registration cycle,
1.
A pharmacy technician registered during the first six (6) months of the
biennium (January to June), shall be required to obtain 20 hours of
C.E.
2. A pharmacy technician
registered during the following twelve (12) months (July to June), shall be
required to obtain 10 hours of C.E.
3. A pharmacy technician registered during
the last six (6) months (July to December) of the biennium, shall be exempt
from continuing education for that biennium only.
(d) In the event of an audit and a pharmacy
technician fails to submit certificates, which document his/her required
continuing education credits, the Board will not process his/her request to
renew the registration until the continuing education requirements are provided
to the Board.
1. The pharmacy technician may
not carry over continuing education credits from one registration period to the
next.
2. Nothing is meant to
prohibit representatives from the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency (GDNA)
from checking, auditing, or verifying a pharmacy technician's continuing
education certificates as needed.
3. Each registered pharmacy technician shall
maintain these certificates of attendance at continuing education meetings for
a period of two (2) years from the date of the preceding renewal
period.
(e) The staff of
the Georgia Board of Pharmacy may audit, or otherwise select randomly, the
continuing education of a percentage of registrants as determined by the
Board.
(7) A registrant
has a responsibility to update the Board with a change of home address and
employment address within ten (10) days of such change.
O.C.G.A.
§§
16-13-111, 26-4-5, 26-4-20, 26-4-27, 26-4-28, 26-4-60, 26-4-80, 26-4-84, 26-4-85, 26-4-88, 26-4-110, 43-1-19.
