Pennsylvania Statutes Title 35 P.S. Health and Safety § 872.6. Establishment of program

(a) General rule.--The board shall establish and oversee the program.  The department shall administer the program by performing budgetary, accounting, procurement and other support services as directed by the board.

(b) Program components.--The program shall:

(c) System queries.--The program shall maintain a record of system queries that contains all of the following:

(d) Record retention.--The board shall remove from the system all identifying information more than seven years old from the date of collection.  The information shall be destroyed unless a law enforcement agency or a professional licensing or certification agency or board for prescribers or dispensers has submitted a written request to the department for retention of specific information for cause.  The information may be kept for an additional period of one year and all requests shall comply with procedures adopted by the board.  The department may not grant more than two extensions regarding the retention of the same identified specific information unless required to do so by court order.

(e) Good cause exception.--The program shall contain a good cause exception for dispensers and prescribers who are unable to submit the required data electronically and shall allow for the manual submission of data if the dispenser or prescriber does not have Internet access.

(f) Expiration.--Current pharmacy reporting requirements to the Attorney General shall expire and shall no longer be enforceable upon the full implementation of the program.  Any data that has been reported to the Office of Attorney General pursuant to 28 Pa. Code § 25.131 (relating to every dispensing practitioner) that satisfies the retention requirements of subsection (d) shall be transferred to the program.