STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1460-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2341

      S.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 S.B. No. 2341, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RESPIRATORY THERAPISTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make permanent the regulation of respiratory therapists under chapter 466D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Acting State Auditor, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii COPD Coalition, and twenty-five individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that, due to the nature of services provided by respiratory therapists, the regulation of respiratory therapists is necessary to protect the health and safety of patients and consumers.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2341, S.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