STAND. COM. REP. NO. 776

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1118

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1118 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NURSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the law authorizing prescriptive authority for qualified advanced practice registered nurses (APRN).

Testimony in support of this bill was received from the Hawaii Medical Association and the Board of Nursing.

Your Committee finds that replacing "collegial" with the broader term, "appropriate" in describing the working relationship between physicians and nurses relative to APRN prescriptive authority, will reduce the need to amend this law when a collegial relationship becomes obsolete, unnecessary, or inappropriate.

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 H.B. No. 1118 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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KENNETH HIRAKI, Chair