STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3424

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2149

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2149, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTISTRY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the ethics training requirement for dentists in the continuing education program to be six hours of ethics training within the previous two years.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Dental Examiners and Hawaii Dental Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure amends the ethics training requirements for dentists to six hours over the course of two years, rather than requiring three hours of ethics training each year.  Your Committee notes that this measure does not change the total amount of ethics training required for dentists over a two-year period; rather, this measure provides greater flexibility for dentists to schedule and complete this training.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that a dentist licensee must complete at least six hours of ethics training in the previous two years for each licensing biennium renewal period to comply with the continuing education requirements for license renewal; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2018.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2149, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2149, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair