STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3110

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 105
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Commerce
and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 105
entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR TO
     CONVENE A TASK FORCE ON ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Governor to
convene a task force on alternative medicine.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Human Services, Hawaii Psychiatric
Medical Association, Massage Therapists Association, and Hawaii
State Chiropractic Association.

     This measure is intended to examine the various forms of
alternative medicine, the ways to stimulate the growth of
alternative medicine, and the prospects of making alternative
medicine into a stimulus for economic growth in Hawaii.  The task
force will recommend those forms of alternative medicine that
should be given formal recognition and suggested regulatory
legislation.  The task force will report to the legislature
before the 2001 Session.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of
          Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Hawaii Psychiatric

 
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          Medical Association, and a representative of the
          massage therapists to the task force;

     (2)  Requesting the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) to
          chair the task force instead of the Department of
          Health, and to report to the legislature; and

     (3)  Adding the LRB and other named organizations and
          licensed providers to the transmittal of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Health and Human Services and Commerce and Consumer
Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees
concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 105, as amended
herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 105,
S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Health and Human
                                   Services and Commerce and
                                   Consumer Protection,



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BRIAN KANNO, Co-Chair              SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair



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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair

 
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