Report Title:

Dental Examination

Description:

Allows acceptance of dental examination results from regional or state testing agencies in the event the state constructed dental examination cannot be administered.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2422

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE DENTAL EXAMINATION.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 448-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§448-10 Examination; time. (a) The board shall require all applicants to take the state written and practical examination on dentistry. In administering the examination the State shall consider current trends in dental education. The requirements for the examination in operative and laboratory dentistry shall be decided by the board and mailed to each applicant. All instruments, materials, and patients shall be supplied by the applicant. Two examinations shall be held each year.

(b) In the event the board is unable to administer an examination, a qualified applicant for the canceled board examination who has passed a regional or state examination satisfactory to the board within one year prior to the canceled board examination or who takes and passes a regional or state examination satisfactory to the board prior to the board’s next administered examination shall meet the board’s examination requirement.

[(b)] (c) The board shall establish and administer a restorative technique examination to all qualified applicants under section 448-9.5. In administering the examination the State shall consider current trends in dental education. No applicant shall be permitted to take the practical examination under subsection (a) unless the applicant has passed the restorative technique examination."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST