STAND. COM. REP. NO.  666-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2331

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2331, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BOARD MEMBER TERMS FOR THE BOARD OF NURSING AND THE BOARD OF SPEECH PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to extend the terms of the members of the Board of Nursing and the Board of Speech Pathology and Audiology from three years to four years.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Hawaii Pacific Health; Hawaii State Center for Nursing; American Organization of Nurse Executives, Hawaii Chapter; Prime Care Services Hawaii, Incorporated; and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Board of Nursing and the Board of Speech Pathology and Audiology are the only boards among the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Professional and Vocational Licensing Division's twenty-five boards and commissions that have less than four-year terms for board members.  Your Committee notes that persons willing to serve as members of professional licensing boards expend considerable time and energy, especially when getting acclimated to serving as a board member.  Your Committee therefore finds that extending the term for members of the Board of Nursing and the Board of Speech Pathology and Audiology would provide continuity of effective board members and be consistent with the length of terms for members of other boards and commissions under the Professional and Vocational Licensing Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2331, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair