Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3227 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that the definitions in chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are consistent with federal law, to establish central fill pharmacies, clarify the requirements of a controlled substance prescription, and to allow the sharing of controlled substance prescription information with other state monitoring systems.

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

Your Committee finds that the Uniform Controlled Substances Act needs to be up-to-date and to conform with current federal law. Your Committee further finds that the central fill prescription system will allow for centralization of pharmacy operations, use the latest information technology, make the processing of legal controlled substances more efficient, and continue to protect medical information from being illegally disseminated.

Your Committee has adopted the suggestions of the Department of Public Safety and Longs Drugs and has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of 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. 3227, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3227, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.