STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2511

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2861

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 1, 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 repeal the Joint Formulary Advisory Committee.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Board of Nursing and the Hawaii State Center for Nursing.

     Your Committee finds that the Joint Formulary Advisory Committee was established with the sole purpose of recommending to the Board of Nursing an applicable formulary for advanced practice registered nurses.  While the Board of Nursing considers the recommendations of the Joint Formulary Advisory Committee, it ultimately makes the final determination of the applicable formulary for advanced practice registered nurses.  Accordingly, your Committee believes that the Joint Formulary Advisory Committee is unnecessary and should be repealed as the Board of Nursing has sufficient expertise, resources, and authority to solely determine the applicable formulary.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical non-substantive amendment to accurately reflect the printed version of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

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

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair