2021 Iowa Code
Title IV - PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 135M - PRESCRIPTION DRUG DONATION REPOSITORY
Section 135M.5 - Exemption from disciplinary action, civil liability, and criminal prosecution.
135M.5 Exemption from disciplinary action, civil liability, and criminal prosecution.
1. A drug manufacturer acting reasonably and in good faith, is not subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability for injury, death, or loss to a person or property for matters related to the donation, acceptance, or dispensing of a prescription drug manufactured by the drug manufacturer that is donated under this chapter, including liability for failure to transfer or communicate product or consumer information or the expiration date of the donated prescription drug.
2. Except as provided in subsection 3, a person including the department or the department’s employees, agents, or volunteers, but not a drug manufacturer subject to subsection 1, acting reasonably and in good faith, is immune from civil liability and criminal prosecution for injury to or the death of an individual to whom a donated prescription drug is dispensed under this chapter and shall be exempt from disciplinary action related to the person’s acts or omissions related to the donation, acceptance, distribution, or dispensing of a donated prescription drug under this chapter.
3. The immunity and exemption provided in subsection 2 do not extend to any of the following:
a. The donation, acceptance, distribution, or dispensing of a donated prescription drug under this chapter by a person if the person’s acts or omissions are not performed reasonably and in good faith.
b. To acts or omissions outside the scope of the program.
2005 Acts, ch 97, §5; 2009 Acts, ch 127, §4
