STAND. COM. REP. NO. 486

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1643

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1643 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTISTRY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Board of Dental Examiners to adopt rules to establish a process for licensure based upon credentials.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from two individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Board of Dental Examiners and one individual. 

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure would amend chapter 448, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the Board of Dental Examiners to establish a procedure for licensure based upon credentials.  Your Committee notes that Hawaii is one of only three other states in the United States that does not currently allow for licensure by credentials.

 

     Your Committee has amended the effective date of this measure for the purposes of promoting further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1643, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1643, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair