STAND. COM. REP. NO.1227

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 805

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 805, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to allow the Narcotics Enforcement Division to share prescription fraud and abuse information about customers of pharmacists employed by a pharmacy registered to dispense controlled substances.

The Department of Public Safety commented on the measure.

Your Committee finds that under chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, pharmacists are subject to penalties for improperly dispensing controlled substances. This bill will allow pharmacists to make an informed decision about filling questionable prescriptions by permitting pharmacists to obtain any relevant prescription fraud or abuse information from the Electronic Prescription Monitoring System.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 805, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 805, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair