STAND. COM. REP. NO. 164

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1137
                                     




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and
Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1137 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Clarify certain provisions relating to the Department
          of Health (DOH); and

     (2)  Add a new license category for environmental health
          services professionals.

     Among other things, this "housekeeping" bill:

     (1)  Eliminates duplication and confusion between Chapter
          321 (Department of Health), Hawaii Revised Statutes
          (HRS), and Chapter 149A, HRS (the Hawaii Pesticides
          Law), Chapter 460J, HRS (Pest Control Operators), and
          Act 242, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998 (Asbestos and Lead
          Law), by repealing certain provisions in Chapter 321;

     (2)  Avoids the inadvertent deposit of non-environmental
          health fees into the Environmental Health Education
          Fund;


 
 
 
 
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     (3)  Replaces the "sanitarian" job title with "environmental
          health professional."  This proposed title will be more
          inclusive and reflect personnel employed in a variety
          of fields relating to noise, food and drug inspection,
          radiation, and indoor air quality;

     (4)  Eliminates the licenses for asbestos and lead workers
          which were included in Chapter 342P, HRS; and

     (5)  Changes the annual re-registration requirements for
          certain licensed personnel to a biennial re-
          registration.

     The DOH testified in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Health that
are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with
the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1137 and recommend that it
pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Labor and
Public Employment.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Energy and
                                   Environmental Protection and
                                   Health,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ALEXANDER C. SANTIAGO, Chair       HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair