STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3156

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2099

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2099, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend various sections of the Hawaii Revised Statutes to authorize advanced practice registered nurses to practice to the fullest extent of their training and education.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Nursing; Disability and Communication Access Board; Hawaii State Center for Nursing; University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene; Hawaii Association of Professional Nurses; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; Hawaii Pacific Health; Lanai Community Health Center; American Association of Nurse Practitioners; and six individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that advanced practice registered nurses provide a wide variety of health care services and are recognized as participating primary health care providers for insurance purposes under the State's Insurance Code.  However, certain sections within the Hawaii Revised Statutes omit advanced practice registered nurses from the definitions or designations of health care entities who may provide health care, prescribe drugs, or sign forms.  These obsolete or outdated statutes create barriers to consumer access to high quality health care provided by advanced practice registered nurses.  Your Committee further finds that this measure amends these obsolete or outdated statutes, thereby enabling advanced practice registered nurses to provide quality health care to patients to the full extent of their education and training.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2099, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2099, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair