Bill Text: HI SB650 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Prescriptions; Hospitals; Emergency Rooms

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. [SB650 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB650-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 451

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 650

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 650 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to prohibit physicians, nurses, and pharmacists from:

 

     (1)  Prescribing long-acting opioid painkillers in emergency rooms;

 

     (2)  Prescribing more than a three-day supply of any other opioid painkillers in emergency rooms; and

 

     (3)  Refilling prescriptions for opioid painkillers that have been lost, stolen, or destroyed,

 

with certain exceptions.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, and Hawaii Medical Service Association.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from The Queen's Health Systems, Hawaii Medical Association, and American Academy of Pain Management.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure will help deter pharmaceutical controlled substance abuses from visiting hospital emergency rooms in an attempt to fraudulently obtain large amounts of controlled substances.  Your Committees also suggests that physicians and nurses should be required to attend continuing medical education training on opioid distribution.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Replacing "pharmacist" with "physician's assistant" in this measure because pharmacists are already not authorized to prescribe opioids;

 

     (2)  Adding MS contin, oxycontin, and fentanyl to the list of long-acting opioid painkillers prohibited from being prescribed in emergency rooms;

 

     (3)  Prohibiting prescriptions for more than a seven-day supply, as opposed to a three-day supply, of opioids other than long-acting opioids in emergency rooms; and

 

     (4)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 650, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 650, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair