STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2303

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2770

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2770 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REMOTE DISPENSING PHARMACY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify the definitions of "remote dispensing machine" and "remote dispensing pharmacy, in Section 461-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes".

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, the Hawaii Medical Service Association, and Hawaii Pacific Health.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is intended purely to clarify the drugs and medications that can be dispensed at a remote pharmacy.  This measure does not change the parameters of when a remote pharmacy can be open.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.

     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. 2770, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2770, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair