STAND. COM. REP. NO. 140

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1124

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 1124 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DIETITIAN LICENSURE SPECIAL FUND,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Department of Health to expend fees from the dietitian licensure special fund to offset expenses relating to the licensure of dietitians.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Hawaii Dietetic Association, Family Voices, Hiliopaa Family to Family Information Center, and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that the Department of Health incurs significant expenses through its administration of the dietitian licensure program, which was implemented in August 2012 and issued twelve dietitian licenses as of November 30, 2012, with more applications being processed.  Your Committees find it necessary to authorize the Department of Health to expend up to $30,000 annually from the dietitian licensure special fund to offset expenses incurred through the administration of this program.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1124 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

 

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JOSH GREEN, Chair