Report Title:

Sale of Sterile Syringes

Description:

Makes permanent the provisions of Act 292, SLH 2001, to allow the continued sale of syringes for the prevention of disease.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2472

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE SALE OF STERILE SYRINGES FOR THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Act 292, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, is amended by amending section 2 to read as follows:

"SECTION 2. [The director of health shall:

    1. Develop and implement a system to dispose of used syringes received from the public;
    2. Develop and implement a system to track syringes purchased in accordance with this Act that are exchanged for new syringes under the state needle exchange program; and
    3. Submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2002 on the status of implementing the disposal and tracking systems.] Repealed."

SECTION 2. Act 292, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, is amended by amending section 4 to read as follows:

"SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that section 1 shall take effect on July 1, 2002[, and shall be repealed on July 1, 2004]."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST