Bill Text: HI HB2464 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Practice of Pharmacy; Vaccination Task Force

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-18 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN. [HB2464 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2464-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2750

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2464

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2464, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRACTICE OF PHARMACY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the definition of "practice of pharmacy" to allow pharmacists to administer immunizations to persons who are at least nine years of age with parental consent contingent upon the Governor's determination of a public health necessity.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Walgreens Company.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from the Department of Health, the Hawaii Pharmacists Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Hawaii Medical Association, Family Voices of Hawai‘i, and one individual.  The Board of Pharmacy submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure with amendments.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that pharmacies are often more conveniently located in our communities and are open for business for longer periods of time than physicians' offices and, during a state health emergency, would provide greater access to community members seeking vaccinations for their children. 

 

     Your Committee further finds that there is a lack of consensus about this measure in the medical and pharmacy communities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by removing the substance of this measure and replacing it with language establishing a temporary task force, to be called the Pharmacy-Administered Vaccinations to Minors Task Force, which shall investigate the concerns raised by the stakeholders of this issue.  The Task Force shall report its conclusions and recommendations, including proposed legislation, to the Legislature twenty days prior to the Regular Session of 2011.

 

     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. 2464, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2464, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair