Reports: Sponsors get green light to circulate North Dakota pharmacy measure petition

BISMARCK, N.D. — Sponsors of a proposed ballot measure that would repeal a 50-year-old section of state law that requires pharmacies to be majority-owned by pharmacists who are licensed in North Dakota can start circulating their petition for signatures, according to published reports.



According to reports, Secretary of State Al Jaeger announced his approval of the petition format on Tuesday. Now the committee must work to gather at least 13,452 qualified signatures by Aug. 6 in order to get the measure on the Nov. 4 ballot.



The approved petition states that the ballot measure would “remove the requirement that an applicant for a permit to operate a pharmacy must be a licensed pharmacist, a business controlled by licensed pharmacists, or a hospital pharmacy or postgraduate medical residency training program,” according to reports.