CVS/Pharmacy #16321, Texas pharmacy licence 30438

This record comes from the Texas State Board of Pharmacy’s own licence register. CVS/Pharmacy #16321 at 4510 Garth Rd, Baytown, TX holds licence 30438 as a community pharmacy, in Harris County. The register puts the licence expiry at January 31, 2028, 501 days from today.

Why a licence record has a DSCSA deadline attached to it

A licensed pharmacy is a dispenser under the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, and section 582 has applied to dispensers throughout. What has been in flux is one relief: FDA exempted small business dispensers from the enhanced, electronic, interoperable requirements, and that relief now runs to November 27, 2027, which is 436 days from today. FDA extended it on 6 August 2026 because the section 582(g)(3) Assessment of Small Dispensers is unfinished, and it republished the letter at the same URL as the previous one, so a check that the link still resolves proves nothing about which letter is behind it.

What this register cannot tell you, and it is the deciding fact

Whether the exemption covers this pharmacy turns on the number of full-time employees of the corporate entity that owns it, not this store. FDA’s definition: The owning company has 25 or fewer full-time employees licensed as pharmacists or qualified as pharmacy technicians. No state licence register publishes that number, this database does not hold it, and the count is taken on a fixed day rather than continuously: November 27, 2026 for the extension year, and November 27, 2024 for the window running now. The first of those has not happened yet, so nobody can state their answer for it as settled fact, including us.

Two traps sit in exactly that gap. A multi-store owner who counts one location routinely concludes they qualify when the corporate total does not, and there was never a blanket exemption for the 26-and-over: that relief ran from 27 november 2024 until 27 november 2025, already expired. What the FDA letters actually say, point by point quotes each one, and what the exemption never covered sets out the section 582 duties that applied the whole time and are already on state board inspection surfaces.

Answer it for this pharmacy in about a minute

The free exemption check asks for the corporate FTE count, the number of locations and four other answers, and returns where this pharmacy stands against both dates with the reasoning shown. Nothing is stored and it needs no account. The DSCSA compliance checklist covers what an inspector asks for either way.

If the answer is that documentation is missing

DoseTrace builds the readiness binder: the standard operating procedures, the trading partner records, the suspect and illegitimate product handling steps, and the dated evidence an inspector reads, assembled for one pharmacy. It is $99 flat, charged once, and it is a document rather than a subscription. Where software ends and a binder begins explains which of the two a small dispenser is actually short of, and what this costs across the market records what the other vendors charge, including how many of them publish a price at all.

Other pharmacies on the Texas register in Harris County

Same register, same county. Pharmacies in one county generally share wholesalers and a board inspector, so they are on the same side of the same questions.

• 1960 Pharmacy of Bellaire, TX (licence 26194)
• A Plus Medicine of Houston, TX (licence 33976)
• A-List Pharmacy of Houston, TX (licence 29443)
• Aaa RX Pharmacy of Katy, TX (licence 31089)
• Aapex Community Pharmacy, INC of Houston, TX (licence 22998)

Where these figures come from

The licence number, type, status, expiry, address and county are the Texas State Board of Pharmacy’s published register, read on July 24, 2026. The exemption end date and the headcount date are FDA’s 6 August 2026 letter. Nothing about this pharmacy is added to the board’s register here; the record is theirs and this page reports it beside the federal deadline that applies to every dispenser on it.