Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 156 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to encourage the establishment of a college of pharmacy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, Board of Pharmacy, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Medical Service Association, Hawaii Pacific Health, and Hawaii Pharmacists Association.

Your Committees find that there is a shortage of pharmacists throughout the nation, including Hawaii. This has a negative impact on the quality of health care. A college of pharmacy at the University of Hawaii could not only help address this shortage but have a positive economic impact on the State as well.

Your Committees have amended this measure by requesting the University of Hawaii at Hilo to submit a report on progress towards the establishment of a college of pharmacy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the 2005 Regular Session.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 156, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 156, S.D. 1.