STAND. COM. REP. 2541

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2951

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2951 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enhance consumer protection by improving the administration of the laws regulating the practice of radiologic technology.

The Department of Health testified in support of this measure.

This measure updates the title of the administrative officer that oversees licensure of radiologic technicians from "executive secretary" to "executive officer". Additionally, this measure affords licensees greater due process protections by eliminating the Radiologic Technology Board's supervision of the executive officer in order to separate the prosecutorial and adjudicatory functions of the licensing authority. Finally, this measure authorizes the imposition of monetary fines, in addition to license denial, suspension, and revocation, for violations of the regulatory laws and rules. Your Committee finds that this measure will facilitate the regulation of radiologic technicians and the protection of consumers.

Your Committee has amended this measure to correctly reflect the language in the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2951, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2951, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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RON MENOR, Chair