STAND. COM. REP. NO.667

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 321

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 H.B. No. 321 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 administrator of the narcotics enforcement division to share information from the electronic prescription accountability system with "dispensers" if the information relates to the dispenser's own patients.

Your Committee received comments from the Department of Public Safety.

Your Committee finds that the matter of dispensers is already addressed in the statutes. However, the matter of pharmacists is not covered and should be addressed concerning requests for prescription information on customers and possible violations of chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting references to dispensers and substituting comparable references with pharmacists; and

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

 

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 H.B. No. 321, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 321, 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