STAND. COM. REP. NO. 933-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 3085
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3085, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NURSES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Require the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to establish an advisory committee to recommend the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) formulary to the Board of Medical Examiners (BME);
(2) Require the advisory committee to report its activities and recommendations in regards to the prescriptive authority formulary, including justification by BME as to the denial of any advisory committee recommendation, to the Legislature; and
(3) Make permanent APRNs' prescriptive authority.
The Hawaii Pharmacists Association, Hawaii Nurses Association, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill. The Board of Nursing supported this bill with amendments. The Hawaii Medical Association opposed this measure. BME provided comments.
Your Committee finds that APRNs are held to the same standard of care as physicians for the conditions they treat, but that APRNs' prescriptive authority is regulated by a formulary developed by BME.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Clarifying that BME shall submit in their annual report to the Board of Nursing all amendments made to the formularies; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity 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 S.B. No. 3085, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3085, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
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