---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revises provisions regarding the manner in which prescriptions are given to pharmacies. (BDR 54-885)"
description: "AN ACT relating to prescriptions; requiring a prescription to be given to a pharmacy by electronic transmission in certain circumstances; providing certain exemptions; authorizing professional discipline and administrative penalties against a practitioner who violates that requirement; authorizing a written prescription to be given indirectly; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "AB 310"
citation: "Nevada AB 310 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["OPTOMETRISTS", "PRESCRIPTIONS", "PODIATRIC PHYSICIANS", "OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS", "ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS", "RECORDS AND TRANSACTIONS", "CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS (See also specific crimes)", "DENTISTS", "PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACY", "PHYSICIANS", "FINES", "NURSES AND NURSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Assemblyman Jason Frierson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-18T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-05T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/274185bb-99e4-43ac-9e0e-96a7a2ee9030"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/6569/Overview"
source_hash: "c135ccb0768480a603b22e44d52387c020808794892effba85e350186b54d4b7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nv"]
---

# Nevada AB 310 (80) — Revises provisions regarding the manner in which prescriptions are given to pharmacies. (BDR 54-885)

AN ACT relating to prescriptions; requiring a prescription to be given to a pharmacy by electronic transmission in certain circumstances; providing certain exemptions; authorizing professional discipline and administrative penalties against a practitioner who violates that requirement; authorizing a written prescription to be given indirectly; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB310.pdf)
2. **Amendment 560** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_AB310_560.pdf)
3. **Amendment 737** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_AB310_R1_737.pdf)
4. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB310_R1.pdf)
5. **Reprint 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB310_R2.pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB310_EN.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Assemblyman Jason Frierson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-03-18T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2019-04-22T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 560.) To printer. `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-23T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Senate.
- **2019-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
- **2019-05-20T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 737.) To printer. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-21T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2019-05-22T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
- **2019-05-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment No. 737 concurred in. To enrollment.
- **2019-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** Chapter 355.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/274185bb-99e4-43ac-9e0e-96a7a2ee9030`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).