Bill Text: HI HB2312 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Naturopathy; Medicine

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (S) Referred to HTH, CPN. [HB2312 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2312-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  483-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2312

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2312, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure safe health care practices by:

 

(1)  Repealing provisions authorizing naturopathic physicians to prescribe legend drugs; and

 

(2)  Establishing a Naturopathic Formulary Board to create a naturopathic formulary to be approved by the Board of Naturopathic Medicine.

 

     The University of Hawaii, American Medical Association, Hawaii Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association, and many concerned individuals supported this bill.  Numerous concerned individuals opposed this bill.  The Professional and Vocational Licensing Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) and Board of Naturopathic Medicine commented on the measure.

 

     Act 22, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, gave practitioners of naturopathic medicine the ability to prescribe any "legend drugs," also known as prescription drugs, approved by the Board of Naturopathic Medicine.  To ensure patient safety, this bill removes legend drugs from the naturopathic formulary and establishes a Naturopathic Formulary Board composed of pharmacists, physicians, and naturopathic physicians, to establish a formulary aligned with the training and clinical experience of naturopathic practitioners.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Renaming the Naturopathic Formulary Board, the "Naturopathic Formulary Committee," (Committee) to avoid confusion with the Board of Naturopathic Medicine;

 

     (2)  Adding a pharmacist member to the Committee to give the Committee seven members and avoid a deadlock in decision making;

 

     (3)  Removing unnecessary provisions dictating the election of a chairperson and vice chairperson and requiring DCCA to establish rules to govern the Committee; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2312, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2312, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair