STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1781

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1238
                                     S.D. 2
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
1238, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to streamline government
operations by:

     (1)  Repealing the regulation of real estate collection
          servicing agents, as set forth in Chapter 454D, Hawaii
          Revised Statutes;

     (2)  Requiring the Legislative Auditor to report on whether
          regulation of barbering, beauty culture, and speech
          pathologists and audiologists should be continued or
          repealed; and

     (3)  Requiring the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a
          study on whether the dental licensing examination is an
          undue exclusionary barrier to entry into the
          profession, and whether it should be replaced by any of
          four regional examinations.

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the
Board of Barbering and Cosmetology testified in support of this
measure.


 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1238, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1238,
S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair