PURPOSE: This rule establishes guidelines for the submission of fingerprint cards for applicants for licensure.

1. (1) Applicants for licensure or registration that must provide fingerprints to the Board of Pharmacy shall include:

   1. (A) Pharmacist examination for licensure;
   2. (B) Pharmacist score transfer for licensure;
   3. (C) Pharmacist examination for licensure by graduates of nonapproved foreign pharmacy schools;
   4. (D) Pharmacist licensure by reciprocity (license transfer);
   5. (E) Drug distributor license manager-incharge (unless currently licensed as a pharmacist in the state of Missouri);
   6. (F) Pharmacy technician; and
   7. (G) Owners with a ten percent (10%) or more interest in a drug distributor entity (applying to non-publicly held companies only).
2. (2) Information collected under this background review will be held as confidential in accordance with state and federal laws governing the dissemination of criminal history information.
3. (3) Any application which is found to contain incomplete, inaccurate or false statements shall be deemed null and void. Any license or registration issued under such circumstances shall be considered a license or registration issued under the pretense of fraud, deception or misrepresentation and the board may file a complaint with the Administrative Hearing Commission to revoke or discipline the license or registration.
4. (4) The board may, in the course of an investigation of a licensee, require that fingerprints be submitted for a background check as provided for in this rule.

AUTHORITY: sections 338.140 and 338.280, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 220-2.450. Original rule filed Jan. 6, 1997, effective July 30, 1997. Amended: Filed April 23, 1998, effective Nov. 30, 1998. Moved to 20 CSR 2220-2.450, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed Aug. 21, 2006, effective April 30, 2007. *Original authority: 338.140, RSMo 1939, amended 1981, 1989, 1997 and 338.280, RSMo 1950, amended 1971, 1981.