Report Title:

Prescriptive Authority; Advanced Practice Nurses

Description:

Makes permanent the Board of Nursing's power to grant prescriptive authority to qualified advanced practice registered nurses. (HB2981 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2981

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to nurses.

 

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

SECTION 1. Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 2002, as amended by section 27 of Act 3, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003, is amended by amending section 5 to read as follows:

"SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2004, except that [title]:

(1) Title 16, chapter 89C, Hawaii administrative rules, shall remain in effect until the board of nursing adopts rules pursuant to section 2 of this Act; and [provided that]

(2) The amendments made to section 457-8.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, in section 1 of this Act, shall [be reenacted in the form in which it read on the day before the effective date of this Act.] not be repealed."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2004.