STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1057

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 967

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred S.B. No. 967, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to bring Hawaii's controlled substance laws in line with those of federal law by:

(1)  Adding new drugs to Hawaii's controlled substance laws to conform to changes made in the federal law;

(2)  Including consideration of a registrant's surrender of a federal controlled substance registration in determining whether the registrant's state registration should be suspended or revoked;

(3)  Authorizing and establishing procedures for pharmacies that electronically share a real-time, online database to transfer controlled substance prescriptions between their pharmacies; and

(4)  Specifying what information practitioners and pharmacists who dispense controlled substances are required to record in their log books.

     The Department of Public Safety (PSD), Honolulu Police Department, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, CVS Caremark Longs Drugs, and Walgreens Co. supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Reinserting language deleted from the Senate Draft 1 of this bill as requested by PSD, authorizing administrative inspections of the premises and records, other than financial data, for establishments such as pharmacies that are authorized to dispense controlled substances; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 967, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 967, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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FAYE HANOHANO, Chair