STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1511

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 114

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 114, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTISTRY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require, after January 1, 2016, licensed dentists to complete at least three hours of ethics training annually as part of their continuing education; and

 

     (2)  Enable the Board of Dental Examiners to suspend or revoke a dentist's license or fine a dentist for conduct or practice contrary to recognized standards of ethics of dentistry, as adopted by the American Dental Association or Hawaii Dental Association.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Dental Association testified in support of this measure.  The Board of Dental Examiners testified in support of the intent of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 114, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair