Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2192, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the requirements for emergency call-in Schedule II prescriptions, the use of facsimile and telephonic prescriptions, and the use of narcotics to treat addiction. This measure also allows the use of central fill pharmacies and limited information sharing and adds new definitions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, the Hawaii Pharmacists Association, Kaiser Permanente, and Longs Drugs.

Your Committee finds that Hawaii law needs to be revised in order to be consistent with changes in federal law.

Your Committee has amended this measure in accordance with testimony from the Department of Public Safety to conform the bill with existing language in federal law, and to make technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

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 H.B. No. 2192, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2192, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.