STAND. COM. REP. NO.  872-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   S.B. No. 2811

      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. 2811, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PHARMACIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve regulation of prescription drugs by requiring all pharmacies and remote dispensing pharmacies to have the capacity to:

(1)  Accept and transmit electronic and facsimile prescriptions; and

(2)  Maintain prescription records electronically.

     The Department of Health and Board of Pharmacy opposed this bill.  Walgreen Co., submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by requiring that electronic prescription records that are maintained by every practitioner, pharmacist, or medical oxygen distributor who compound, sell, or deliver any prescribed drugs to a patient or patient's agent, transmittable via facsimile, as well as electronically.

     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. 2811, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2811, 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,

____________________________

RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair