STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2304

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2811

       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. 2811 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PHARMACIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require all pharmacies and remote dispensing pharmacies to have the capacity to maintain and transmit prescriptions electronically.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the intent of this measure with amendments from the Hawaii Medical Service Association.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health.  The Board of Pharmacy submitted with comments on this measure.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the date of compliance with this measure from January 1, 2011 to January 1, 2012;

     (2)  Including facsimiles in the accepted methods of transmitting prescriptions; and

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050 to encourage further discussion 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. 2811, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2811, 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