STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2108

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2861

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2861 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Repeal the Joint Formulary Advisory Committee established by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; and

     (2)  Allow the Board of Nursing to be the sole authority that determines the exclusionary formulary for qualified advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Nursing.

     Your Committee finds that the Joint Formulary Advisory Committee's sole function is to determine the formulary for advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority.  However, the Board of Nursing, as the authority that oversees the practice of nursing in Hawaii, including advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority, ultimately makes the final determination on the exclusionary formulary.  Accordingly, this measure repeals the Joint Formulary Advisory Committee, as it is obsolete and unnecessary, and permits the Board of Nursing to be the sole authority that determines the exclusionary formulary for qualified advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2861, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair