STAND. COM. REP. NO. 100

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 965

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 965 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish qualifications for nonresident military spouses eligible for expedited procedures for professional and vocational licensing by endorsement or reciprocity, and temporary licensing.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Professional and Vocational Licensing Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.

 

     Your Committee finds many spouses accompany their service member spouse on military duty assignments.  This measure simplifies and expedites the employment of trained, educated, and highly qualified military spouses while establishing requirements for nonresident military spouses to maintain licenses and requires reporting of changes in status or circumstances that may affect licensure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 965 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair