STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2208

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2390

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Health and Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2390 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to broaden the practical experience requirements for a pharmacist license to include experience obtained in the United States territories and the District of Columbia as well as to allow practical experience to be obtained in locations other than pharmacies.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from CVS Caremark/Longs Drugs, the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo College of Pharmacy, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, the Guam Pharmacists Association, and three individuals.  Testimony in support of the intent of the measure with amendments was received from the Board of Pharmacy.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committees find that this measure will encourage student pharmacists from the United States territories in the Pacific Basin to enroll at the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy.  Your Committees further find that this measure will expand the number and diversity of practical experience rotations available to University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy Students.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requiring that the registered pharmacist supervising the practical experience of an applicant for a pharmacist license be duly registered or licensed in the state, territory or district where the experience is obtained; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2390, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2390, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Higher Education,

____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair

____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair