Bill Text: HI SB972 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-22 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Hanohano, McKelvey, Takumi, Woodson excused (4). [SB972 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB972-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 512

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 972

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 972 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the Uniform Controlled Substances Act by:

 

(1)  Adding definitions of "electronic prescription", "electronic prescription application", and "electronic signature" to be consistent with federal law;

 

(2)  Adding conditions for the transmittal of prescriptions electronically by the practitioner to a pharmacy for schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substances; and

 

(3)  Clarifying the prohibited acts involving electronic prescriptions.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from CVS Caremark, Kaiser Permanente, Walgreens, Hawaii Medical Association, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure allows prescribers

who are registered and authorized to prescribe controlled substances, to electronically prescribe and electronically convey prescriptions for controlled substances listed in schedules II, III, IV, and V to a pharmacy of the patient's choice.  The electronic conveyance of prescriptions from prescribers to pharmacists provides a safer, more secure, and timely means to prescribe controlled substances in addition to the traditional method of providing the patient with a handwritten prescription.

 

     Your Committee further finds that this measure eliminates or greatly reduces forgeries, lost prescription documents, and illegible handwriting, which contribute to medication errors, wasted time, and increased frustration for patients who need these medicines.

 

     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 S.B. No. 972 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair