STAND. COM. REP. NO.  341

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 253

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 253 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VACCINATIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize pharmacists to administer vaccines to persons between 14 and 17 years of age who have a valid prescription issued by the person's primary care physician or by a collaborating physician.

 

     Walgreen Co., Foodland Supermarkets Ltd., CVS Health/Longs Drugs, and three individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs opposed this measure.  The Department of Health, Board of Pharmacy, Hawaii State Center for Nursing, and Hawaii Academy of Pediatrics commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Expanding authority of advanced practice registered nurses to perform certain health care services and procedures; and

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

 

Should this measure proceed further in the legislative process, your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce to consider the need to retain in the measure, reference to a patient's "medical home," which is defined in section 461-11.4(e), Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     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. 253, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 253, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair