Report Title:

Temporary Dental Licensure

Description:

Extends the maximum period for temporary dental licensure to three years.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

925

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to dentistry.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 448-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) The board of dental examiners may issue without examination to any resident or nonresident otherwise qualified to be examined a temporary license to practice dentistry in the employment of the State or any county, or any legally incorporated eleemosynary dispensary or infirmary, private school, or welfare center. The temporary license shall authorize the person to whom the license is issued to practice dentistry exclusively while engaged in that employment and shall be in force until [the earliest of the following occurs]:

(1) The date the person leaves the employment authorized under the temporary license;

(2) [The three hundred ninety-sixth calendar day] The last day of the three-year period following the date of issuance of the temporary license;

(3) The date on which the results of the licensure examination taken by the person under this chapter are posted by the board; or

(4) The date on which the board revokes the temporary license;

whichever date occurs first; provided that the board may revoke the temporary license at any time for cause."

No person who has failed an examination shall have the benefit of any temporary license."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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