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.  334-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2312

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2312 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 removing the ability of naturopathic physicians to conduct minor office procedures and prescribe from a naturopathic formulary.

 

     The University of Hawaii System, Hawaii Medical Association, and numerous concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Hawaii Society of Naturopathic Physicians and many concerned individuals opposed this measure.  The Board of Naturopathic Medicine (Board) submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by, among other things:

 

(1)  Requiring the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to establish a Naturopathic Formulary Board to create a naturopathic formulary for the practice of naturopathic medicine that will be updated and published every two years;

 

(2)  Reestablishing the ability of naturopathic physicians to conduct minor office procedures and prescribe from a naturopathic formulary;

 

(3)  Including vitamins, minerals, dietary supplements, botanical medicines, homeopathic medicines, and hormones consistent with naturopathic medical practice as part of a naturopathic formulary; and

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair