STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1642-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: S.B. No. 2392
S.D. 2
H.D. 3
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2392, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OPIOID ANTAGONISTS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Providing immunity for health care professionals and pharmacists who prescribe, dispense, distribute, possess, or administer an opioid antagonist such as naloxone hydrochloride to persons experiencing or at risk of experiencing an opioid-related drug overdose;
(2) Authorizing emergency personnel and first responders to administer opioid antagonists to a person believed to be suffering from opioid-related drug overdose;
(3) Requiring Medicaid coverage for opioid antagonists;
(4) Allowing harm reduction organizations to store and distribute opioid antagonists; and
(5) Requiring the Department of Health to provide education and training related to opioid-related drug overdose prevention, recognition, and response, including opioid antagonist administration.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Making it take effect upon its approval; 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2392, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2392, S.D. 2, H.D. 3.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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