STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1401

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1021
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which
was referred S.B. No. 1021 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CLINICAL LABORATORY
     PERSONNEL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Facilitate the Department of Health's (DOH)
          administration of the clinical laboratory licensing
          program by amending licensing categories to provide
          clarity; and

     (2)  Adopt proposed Hawaii Administrative Rule amendments
          regarding clinical laboratory personnel to resolve
          conflicts between existing licensing categories and
          Public Health Regulations, Chapter 30.

     DOH commented on the bill and requested that a number of
amendments be made to the bill.  Similar amendments were
requested by Diagnostic Laboratory Services, Inc., and the
American Society of Clinical Pathologists, who were concerned
that the bill as written establishes categories of laboratory
practitioners that do not conform with those recognized by
federal and certifying agencies, and commonly used in the
industry.


 
 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill as requested by DOH,
by:

     (1)  Deleting the category of clinical laboratory
          technologist and substituting the category of medical
          laboratory technologist;

     (2)  Deleting the category of clinical laboratory
          cytotechnologist and substituting the category of
          cytotechnologist; and

     (3)  Adding the category of medical laboratory technician.

Your Committee has also made technical, nonsubstantive amendments
for clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1021, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
1021, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   RON MENOR, Chair