SR 54 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE DIRECTOR OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS TO ESTABLISH AND CONVENE A PHARMACY REIMBURSEMENT WORKING GROUP TO EXPLORE AND PROPOSE LEGISLATION FOR THE 2026 LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

This Senate Resolution (SR 54) requests the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to establish a Pharmacy Reimbursement Working Group. The group will study how health insurers reimburse pharmacists for clinical services (like immunizations and chronic disease management) beyond basic medication dispensing, and propose legislation for the 2026 session requiring such reimbursement. It directs the group to include pharmacy representatives, insurers, the Board of Pharmacy, and others to examine impacts on patient access, costs, and models used in other states. The resolution does not change current law but sets up a process to develop future legislation. (Note: This is a procedural resolution, not a bill with immediate effect.)

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Apr 2025

House Passage

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action Apr 3, 2025

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SR54 → SR54_SD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This is primarily a formatting and metadata update to a Senate Resolution (SR 54) rather than a substantive policy change. The core legislative text requesting the creation of a Pharmacy Reimbursement Working Group remains substantially the same, though some minor wording adjustments were made to member invitations and resolution language. The document now includes system-generated metadata fields that were previously absent.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; the resolution's purpose and requirements remain unchanged.

TECHNICAL

Added metadata fields including timestamps, document IDs, and template revision numbers that were not present in the original version.

Changed the working group membership invitation language from 'one representative of the Board of Pharmacy' to 'one representative of the Board of Pharmacy; two representatives from the retail pharmacy community' with slight formatting adjustments.

Adjusted resolution text from 'Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' to 'Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, or the Insurance Commissioner's designee' in one instance.

Removed page headers, footers, and document metadata that were embedded in the original file format.

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This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Apr 3, 2025

Upper · Passed

Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1).

upper

Apr 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from CPN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1597) with recommendation of adoption, as amended (SD 1).

upper

Apr 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Mar 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on CPN has scheduled a public hearing on 04-01-25 10:06AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 11, 2025

Committee

Referred to CPN.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors