STAND. COM. REP. NO. 380

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 440
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which
was referred H.B. No. 440, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:
     
     (1)  Allow the Narcotics Enforcement Division (NED) to share
          prescription information with physicians; and

     (2)  Appropriate funds from the controlled substance
          registration revolving fund for one full-time data
          processing systems analyst position to carry out this
          task.

     The Narcotics Enforcement Division testified in strong
support of this bill. 

     Your Committee finds that this bill will be beneficial for
practitioners to better identify patients who are abusing
controlled substances by obtaining multiple prescriptions.  Your
Committee further finds it important that the information
disclosed to authorized practitioners is and remains
confidential, and is intended to be used as a tool to prevent the
improper or illegal use of controlled substances.  

     For purposes of clarity and style, your Committee has
amended this measure by making some technical and nonsubstantive

 
 
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amendments.  Your Committee has also deleted lines 16 and 17,
which is material more appropriately included in a committee
report and its substance is reflected in your Committee's
findings.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 440, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in
the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 440, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   RON MENOR, Chair