STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1057

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1053

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1053, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NATIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXAMINATIONS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the requirements for licensure of dental hygienists to include passage of the National Dental Hygiene Examination.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Dental Examiners.

 

     Your Committees find that Hawaii, like every other state in the country, already requires passage of the National Dental Hygiene Examination through administrative rules adopted by the Board of Dental Examiners.  Your Committees also find that including this requirement in the statutes governing licensure for dental hygienists will increase transparency and clarity for license applications.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1053, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1053, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Health,

 

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JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair