STAND. COM. REP. 2532

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2898

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2898 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COSMETOLOGY LICENSE RESTORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow a forfeited beauty operator or instructor license to be restored beyond three years after the lapse at the discretion of the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (Board).

Comments on this measure were submitted by the Board.

Your Committee finds that the Board regulates and oversees both the barbering and cosmetology professions. Your Committee further finds that an inconsistency currently exists between the regulation of these professions, in that the restoration of a beauty operator's or instructor's license may only be granted within three years after the license's lapse, whereas a barber's license may be restored beyond the three-year period. As a result, a number of beauty operators and instructors have lost their licenses, thereby diminishing the public's choices for obtaining beauty services within the State.

Your Committee determines that parity should exist in the regulation of the barbering and cosmetology professions in order to provide equal opportunities to qualified individuals to remain licensed professionals in their respective fields. Such parity will provide for the restoration of a beauty operator's or instructor's license beyond the three-year period, as well as give the Board the discretion to grant restoration based upon relevant criteria of its own determination.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2898 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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RON MENOR, Chair