Verification record
How current is Texas’s pharmacy staffing rule, and how does RxShift know?
Last verified 2026-10-19. Read from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word; the weekly re-check on 2026-10-19 confirmed that every recorded passage is still there today.
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Passages captured from the issuing body
2,196 characters, word for word
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Official sources
pharmacy.texas.gov
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Dated reads on file
captures taken 2026-10-05, 2026-10-16
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Automatic re-checks
newest 2026-10-19
The rule on file
22 Tex. Admin. Code 291.32(d)(3)(A). Up to 6 pharmacy technicians and technician trainees per on-site pharmacist, and no more than 3 of the 6 may be trainees.
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The recorded passages
Recorded word for word on the read of 2026-10-16. Each week an automated re-check opens every official source named here and confirms each passage is still on the page as served; the mark on each passage is what the newest re-check (2026-10-19) found.
Source 1: pharmacy.texas.gov
https://www.pharmacy.texas.gov/files_pdf/TSBP%20Rules_MASTER%20FILE.pdf ↗cover masthead
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19Texas State Board of Pharmacy Board Rules September 1, 2026 TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE TITLE 22 - EXAMINING BOARDS PART 15 - TEXAS STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY
153 characters, recorded as written.
291.32(d)(3)(A) to (C)(i), the ratio
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19(3) Ratio of on-site pharmacists to pharmacy technicians and pharmacy technician trainees. (A) Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C) of this paragraph, the ratio of on-site pharmacists to pharmacy technicians and pharmacy technician trainees may be 1:6, provided the pharmacist is on-site and a maximum of three of the six are pharmacy technician trainees. The ratio of pharmacists to pharmacy technician trainees may not exceed 1:3. (B) Subparagraph (A) of this paragraph does not apply to a central fill pharmacy, as defined in §291.125 of this title (relating to Centralized Prescription Dispensing), that has no patient-facing contact. For purposes of this subparagraph, patient-facing contact means any direct interaction between a pharmacy employee and a patient or patient's agent. (C) As specified in §568.006 of the Act, a Class A pharmacy may have a ratio of on-site pharmacists to pharmacy technicians/pharmacy technician trainees of 1:5 provided: (i) the Class A pharmacy: (I) dispenses no more than 20 different prescription drugs; and (II) does not produce sterile preparations including intravenous or intramuscular drugs on-site; and
1,159 characters, recorded as written.
283.5(b), pharmacist-interns outside the ratio
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19(b) When not under the supervision of a pharmacist preceptor, a pharmacist-intern may function as a pharmacy technician and perform all of the duties of a pharmacy technician without registering as a pharmacy technician provided the pharmacist-intern: (1) is registered with the board as a pharmacist-intern; (2) is under the direct supervision of a pharmacist; (3) has completed the pharmacy's on-site technician training program; (4) has completed the training required for pharmacists in §291.133 of this title (relating to Pharmacies Compounding Sterile Preparations) if the pharmacist-intern is involved in compounding sterile preparations; and (5) is not counted as a pharmacy technician in the ratio of pharmacists to pharmacy technicians.
746 characters, recorded as written.
283.6(b)(1), one intern per preceptor
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19A preceptor may supervise only one pharmacist-intern at any given time (1:1 ratio) except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection.
138 characters, recorded as written.
Every read and every re-check, newest first
A dated read is RxShift reading the issuing body’s text and recording it in a dated report; its public note is repeated here word for word from the updates log. A re-check is the weekly automated comparison of the recorded passages against the live page. People decide every reading; a re-check never changes one.
2026-10-19
Re-check: confirmed
The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (4 of 4, 1,868 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day.
2026-10-16
Re-check: confirmed
The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (4 of 4, 1,868 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day.
2026-10-16
Full read
Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.
No change in Texas as of October 16, 2026. One on-site pharmacist may still supervise up to 6 pharmacy technicians and technician trainees, with no more than 3 of them trainees, under Texas State Board of Pharmacy rule 22 TAC 291.32(d)(3)(A), and pharmacist-interns are still not counted in that ratio under 22 TAC 283.5(b)(5). Both were re-read today from the Board's own rules compilation.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-10-15
Re-check: nothing to match
The record on file holds no passage the automated re-check can match against the issuing body's page, so this state rests on its dated read.
2026-10-05
Full read
Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.
No change in Texas as of October 5, 2026. One on-site pharmacist may still supervise up to 6 pharmacy technicians and technician trainees, with no more than 3 of them trainees, under Texas State Board of Pharmacy rule 22 TAC 291.32(d)(3)(A), and pharmacist-interns are still not counted in that ratio under 22 TAC 283.5(b)(5). Neither rule has been amended in the past year, and no change to either is proposed.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-28
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
No change in Texas. One on-site pharmacist may still supervise up to 6 pharmacy technicians and technician trainees, with no more than 3 of them trainees, under Texas State Board of Pharmacy rule 22 TAC 291.32(d)(3)(A), and pharmacist-interns are still not counted in that ratio under 22 TAC 283.5(b)(5). Neither rule has been amended in the past year, and the Board's only new proposal this month concerns delivering prescriptions to a prescriber's office, not staffing.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-21
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
No change in Texas. One on-site pharmacist may still supervise up to 6 pharmacy technicians and technician trainees, with no more than 3 of the 6 being trainees, under Texas State Board of Pharmacy rule 22 TAC 291.32(d)(3)(A), and pharmacist-interns are still not counted in that ratio under 22 TAC 283.5(b)(5). Nothing to change the ratio is pending before the Board, no amendment to either rule was filed in the past 12 months, and the Board's published rule review schedule does not revisit the community pharmacy chapter that contains the ratio until late 2027.
Confidence recorded: medium. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-17
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
Texas pharmacy rules do not set a maximum number of hours a pharmacist or pharmacy technician may work, a minimum rest period between shifts, or a required meal break. What Texas does regulate is what must happen when a pharmacist steps away: under 22 TAC 291.33(b)(3) a single pharmacist may leave the prescription department only on stated conditions, pharmacies with two or more pharmacists must stagger breaks so the department is never left uncovered, and the pharmacy must keep documentation of its pharmacists' absences.
Confidence recorded: medium. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-08
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
In Texas, one on-site pharmacist may supervise up to 6 pharmacy technicians and technician trainees, and no more than 3 of them may be trainees, under Texas State Board of Pharmacy rule 22 TAC 291.32(d)(3)(A). Pharmacist-interns do not count toward that limit. The rule is unchanged since December 2020, apart from a May 28, 2025 amendment that exempts central fill pharmacies with no patient contact, and no change to the ratio is pending before the Board.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
What the re-check results mean
- Confirmed: every recorded passage was still on the issuing body’s page as served that day.
- Mismatch: at least one passage was not found. It is reported as it stands, a person looks, and the rows after it show what followed.
- Not allowed: the issuing body’s site does not permit automated reading, so the rule rests on its dated read, by a person where the page can only be opened in a browser.
- Nothing to match, no baseline: the record on file held no passage the re-check can match, or no report yet qualified as its baseline.