STAND. COM. REP. NO.  484-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2464

      H.D. 2

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. 2464, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRACTICE OF PHARMACY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to expedite patient care by granting pharmacists the authority to administer immunizations to children at least nine years of age with parental consent.

     Walgreen Co. testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health and Hawaii Pharmacists Association opposed this measure.  A concerned individual provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Making a pharmacist's authority to administer                  immunizations to children at least nine years of age               contingent upon the Governor's determination of a public      health necessity; and

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

     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. 2464, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2464, H.D. 2.

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

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair