Bill Text: HI HB651 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Electronic Prescriptions; Controlled Substances; Drug Enforcement Administration

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-19 - Act 020, 4/18/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1120). [HB651 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB651-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 992

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 651

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 651, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTIONS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the Uniform Controlled Substances Act in chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by adding definitions consistent with federal law, clarifying the conditions for electronic transmittal of prescriptions, and clarifying violations of prohibited acts.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Department of Public Safety, Kaiser Permanente, CVS Caremark, Hawaii Medical Association, and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that permitting medical practitioners to electronically prescribe controlled substances and to convey the prescription directly to the pharmacy of the patient's choice will provide practitioners with a safer, more secure, and more timely means to prescribe controlled substances.  Your Committees further find that the electronic transmission of controlled substances prescriptions is safe and efficient because it eliminates issues associated with forgeries, lost prescription documents, and illegible handwriting.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 651, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Technology and the Arts,

 

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair