STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1131-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2811

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 2811, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PHARMACIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the regulation of prescription drugs by requiring all pharmacies and remote dispensing pharmacies to have the capacity to maintain prescription records electronically and to accept and transmit prescription information electronically or by facsimile.

 

     The Board of Pharmacy and Longs Drugs opposed this bill.  The Department of Health and Walgreen Co. provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Inserting provisions that provide a registered pharmacist with the authority to administer immunizations to children at least nine years of age but less than eighteen years of age with parental consent and upon the Governor's determination of a public health necessity; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2811, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2811, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

 

 

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair