STAND. COM. REP. NO.  197-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1962

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1962 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PSEUDOEPHEDRINE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish an electronic tracking system for the sale of products containing pseudoephedrine as a base.

 

     The Hawaii Food Industry Association and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Public Safety testified in support of the intent of the measure, with proposed amendments.  The Legislative Information Services of Hawaii commented on the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Clarifying that a pharmacy or retailer must keep either a written or electronic log of its sales of nonprescription products containing pseudoephedrine;

 

(2)  Removing the conditions under which electronic information is submitted to, and forwarded from, the National Precursor Log Exchange;

 

(3)  Clarifying the violation that is subject to a class C felony;

    

(4)  Clarifying that the requirements in the measure apply to any pharmacy or retailer;

 

(5)  Authorizing the administrator, rather than the Board of Pharmacy, to grant exemptions from submitting pseudoephedrine sale transactions to the electronic sales tracking system; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1962, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1962, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair