STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 184-18
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2018
RE: H.B. No. 2145
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. 2145 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICATION SYNCHRONIZATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee respectfully requests that the Board of Pharmacy and the Insurance Commissioner collaborate on and provide substantive amendments to include in this measure and work to address issues such as how medications in unbreakable packaging can be prorated.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Removing language requiring a prescriber or pharmacist to determine whether partial medication fills or refills are in a patient's best interest; and
(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.
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. 2145, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2145, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Human Services,
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____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair |
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