STAND. COM. REP. NO.  823-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   S.B. No. 2390

      S.D. 2

      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 Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2390, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to broaden opportunities to fulfill 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 licensed pharmacist to count toward licensure; and

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

     The University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy, Board of Pharmacy, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, CVS Caremark/Longs Drugs, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by adding the contents of H.B. No. 2464 H.D. 2, as part II of the bill.  As amended, this bill also provides a pharmacist with the authority to administer immunizations to children at least nine years of age with parental consent and upon the Governor's determination of a public-health necessity.

     Your Committee has further amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, 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. 2390, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2390, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair