STAND. COM. REP. NO. 319-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1387
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No.
1387 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NURSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is
to allow advanced practice registered nurses (APRN) to practice
psychotherapy.

     Your Committee heard this measure during the 1999 Regular
Session and recommended that it be held.  Subsequently, this
measure was carried over to the 2000 Regular Session, and for
purposes of discussion and public hearing, your Committee
circulated a proposed H.D. 1 version of this bill.  The proposed
H.D. 1. version would have:

     (1)  Required one registered nurse member of the Board of
          Nursing (Board) to be an APRN; and

     (2)  Replaced one of two licensed practical nurse Board
          members, upon first vacancy after the effective date of
          the Act, with a registered nurse Board member.

     The Board and the Hawaii Nurses' Association testified in
support of the proposed draft.


 
 
 
 
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     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by incorporating the amendments made in the proposed
H.D.1.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1387, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1387, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.

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



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                                   ALEXANDER C. SANTIAGO, Chair