Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1118 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the law that authorizes prescriptive authority to qualified advanced practice registered nurses by broadening the language regarding the relationship between qualified advanced practice registered nurses granted prescriptive authority and a licensed physician from "collegial" to "appropriate".

The Board of Nursing, the Hawaii Nurses Association, and the Hawaii Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee agrees with the Board of Nursing that such an amendment will "lessen the need to amend this section whenever new types of working relationships between the two practitioners evolve or old working relationships become obsolete or unnecessary."

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. 1118, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing.