Bill Text: HI SB2228 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pseudoephedrine; Tracking

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-15 - (S) Act 119, 6/15/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1221). [SB2228 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2228-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2500

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2228

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2228, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PSEUDOEPHEDRINE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish an electronic tracking system for the sale of products containing pseudoephedrine as a base and require the Department of Public Safety Narcotics Enforcement Division to implement the electronic tracking system.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Legislative Information Services of Hawaii, and Hawaii Food Industry Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that an electronic tracking system will assist the State in tracking retail pseudoephedrine sales and decrease the production of methamphetamine.  This measure will also improve a retailer's ability to safely sell products containing pseudoephedrine to consumers by permitting a retailer to check a computerized database prior to sale.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring a pharmacy or retailer to seek an exemption in writing to the Administrator of the Narcotics Enforcement Division, rather than the Board of Pharmacy, as the Narcotics Enforcement Division Administrator has responsibility for tracking controlled substances and regulated chemicals utilized to manufacture controlled substances.

 

     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. 2228, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2228, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair