STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1953-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2646

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 3

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2646, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to reduce the public's access to Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substances by:

 

     (1)  Requiring a prescriber to consult the State's Electronic Prescription Accountability System (System) before prescribing the controlled substance in a quantity equaling a supply of seven days or longer, subject to certain exemptions; and

 

     (2)  Appropriating funds to the Department of Public Safety to improve the functionality and reliability of the System.

 

     The Department of Health, Department of Public Safety, and Hawaii Medical Service Association testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' Regulated Industries Complaints Office, Maui Chamber of Commerce, and Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that a prescriber's failure to consult the System, when required, may result in disciplinary action by the appropriate licensing authority, rather than under specific, enumerated prescribers' disciplinary licensing laws.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2646, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2646, S.D. 1, H.D. 3.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair