The F.D.A. is also developing a system to allow doctors, nurses and pharmacists to report medication errors online.

The law allowed pharmacists and wholesalers to import prescription drugs that meet federal safety standards.

The bill would allow pharmacists and registered nurses who choose to participate to obtain blanket prescriptions from doctors, naming no individual patient, for the morning-after pill.

The other would allow pharmacists and wholesalers to import drugs from Canada and Europe, where prices are held down by government regulation.

The bill would allow pharmacists and wholesalers to import prescription drugs that meet safety standards set by federal law and regulations.

In substance, the bill would allow pharmacists and nurses to dispense the pill to women or girls of any age who do not have prescriptions.

In the Maryland House of Delegates, a debate this year over allowing pharmacists to distribute the pills quickly became one about teenage promiscuity and abortion.

Congress approved a law in December allowing pharmacists and wholesalers to import prescription drugs at lower costs for consumers.

The House has previously voted for legislation like the Senate bill, which would allow pharmacists and wholesalers to import prescription drugs from Canada.

The network allows pharmacists in stores throughout the country to gain instant access to a customer's prescription records.