Bill Text: HI HB2678 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Bill 2678 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Pharmacy; Remote Dispensing Pharmacy; Remote Dispensing Machine

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-27 - (H) Referred to HLT, CPC, referral sheet 7 [HB2678 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2678-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2678
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to REMOTE DISPENSING pharmacy.

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that many individuals living in underserved or remote areas need improved access to medications and pharmacy services. Without access to a pharmacy, individuals face tremendous barriers to obtaining basic, much-needed medications. To permit residents on rural islands and in remote areas to have access to a remote dispensing pharmacy the legislature passed Act 96, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009.

The purpose of this Act is to clarify the definitions of "remote dispensing machine" and "remote dispensing pharmacy" to allow remote dispensing pharmacies to better serve these residents.

SECTION 2. Section 461-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definitions of "remote dispensing machine" and "remote dispensing pharmacy" to read as follows:

""Remote dispensing machine" means a device used for dispensing unit-of-use drugs [~~that are acquired pursuant to section 340B of the Public Health Service Act, Title 42 United States Code section 256b,~~] that is operated using information technologies and is located in a remote dispensing pharmacy.

"Remote dispensing pharmacy" means the area in an institutional facility, including a federally qualified health center[~~, providing~~] that provides outpatient medical care in any county, by dispensing prescription drugs [~~that are acquired pursuant to section 340B of the Public Health Service Act, Title 42 United States Code section 256b,~~] through the use of a remote dispensing machine."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that the definitions of "remote dispensing machine" and "remote dispensing pharmacy" shall not be affected by the repeal on January 2, 2014 pursuant to Act 96, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Pharmacy; Remote Dispensing Pharmacy; Remote Dispensing Machine

Description:

Clarifies the definitions of "remote dispensing machine" and "remote dispensing pharmacy".

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