STAND. COM. REP. NO.  411-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2391

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2391 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Public Safety's Narcotics Enforcement Division's Administrator to disclose confidential information from the Electronic Prescription Accountability System to authorized employees of the Department of Health's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division and Emergency Medical Services and Injury Prevention System Branch.

 

     The Department of Public Safety, Department of Health, Bobby Benson Center, and Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to promote further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2391, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2391, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair