Report Title:

Dental Hygienists

 

Description:

Allows licensed dental hygienist to practice under the director general supervision of a licensed dentist.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1603

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to dental hygienistS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 447-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(c) The licensed dental hygienist [may] shall operate [in the office of any licensed dentist, or legally incorporated eleemosynary dental dispensary or infirmary, private school, or welfare center, or in any building owned or occupied by the State or any county, but only under the aforesaid employment and under the direct or general supervision of a licensed dentist; provided that in the private practice of dentistry, the hygienist shall be] under the direct or general supervision of a licensed dentist. No dental hygienist may establish or operate any separate care facility which exclusively renders dental hygiene services."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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