STAND. COM. REP. NO.  385-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2332

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2332 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE JOINT FORMULARY ADVISORY COMMITTEE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the Joint Formulary Advisory Committee established under section 457-8.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, thereby granting the Board of Nursing sole authority to determine the exclusionary formulary for qualified advanced practice registered nurses who are granted prescriptive authority.

The Board of Nursing, University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, Hawaii Association of Professional Nurses, Hawai‘i State Center for Nursing, Hawai‘i Pacific Health, AONE Hawaii, and several individuals testified in support 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 H.B. No. 2332 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair