STAND. COM. REP. NO. 942-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 3129
                                     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 S.B. No.
3129 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HEALING PRACTICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to extend the sunset date for
the exemption from medical licensure for Hawaiian healing
practices until July 1, 2002.

     Papa Ola Lokahi, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and a
concerned physician submitted testimony in support of this bill.
Comments were submitted by the Board of Medical Examiners that it
did not object to this bill.

     This bill extends from July 1, 2000, to July 1, 2002, that
part of Act 162, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, that exempts from
medical licensure traditional Hawaiian healing practice by
traditional native Hawaiian healers.

     The Act required Papa Ola Lokahi to convene a panel to
address the permanent implementaion of the purposes of the Act,
and to submit a final report and recommended legislation to the
Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of
the Regular Session of 2000. The panel has requested more time to
prepare a final report.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended
this bill by extending the date to submit the final report and
recommended legislation to no later than twenty days prior to the
convening of the Regular Session of 2002.  Further, technical,

 
 
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nonsubstantive amendments were made for purposes of style,
clarity, and consistency.
     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 S.B. No.
3129, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3129, 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