STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1611-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2861

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, 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 and Hawaii State Center for Nursing supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair