Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2090, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide a prescription drug repository to receive and dispense donated prescription drugs to needy persons.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the American Cancer Society. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Health and the Board of Pharmacy.

Your Committee finds that there is a substantial amount of unused yet safe prescription drugs that can be donated and provided to needy persons. With the high costs of prescription drugs forcing needy persons to decide between buying the prescription drugs they need or having a meal, your Committee finds that this measure will benefit the needy in Hawaii.

Your Committee has adopted the language that the American Cancer Society, the Department of Health, the Medicine Bank, and the Board of Pharmacy collaborated on and submitted. Specifically, your Committee amended this measure by amending existing statutory language rather than creating a new chapter. New sections were added to:

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 S.B. No. 2090, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2090, S.D. 2.