STAND. COM. REP. NO.  845

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1098

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1098 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Office of the Auditor to conduct a sunrise analysis of the regulation of health educators.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc., Society for Public Health Education, and four individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that health educators work with hospital patients, children, and community residents at all levels of health care.  However, health educators are not regulated by the State.  Your Committee believes that requiring health educators to meet certain educational standards and competency requirements would ensure the safety and quality of the health education that they provide to the public.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1098 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair