STAND. COM. REP. NO.  542-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2056

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2056, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PHARMACIST LICENSURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to broaden the practical experience requirements for a pharmacist license by:

     (1)  Allowing experience gained in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa to count toward licensure;

     (2)  Expanding the types of service and experience that count toward licensure;

     (3)  Allowing practical experience completed under a registered pharmacist to count toward licensure; and

     (4)  Removing the requirement that experience required for licensure take place in a pharmacy.

     The Board of Pharmacy, University of Hawaii at Hilo, College of Pharmacy; Kaiser Permanente Hawaii; Longs Drugs; and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2056, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair