Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 1065 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify requirements for the licensure of architects consistent with administrative rules and current standards of professional training by colleges and universities.

Specifically, this measure:

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors, and Landscape Architects (Board), American Institute of Architects, and the University of Hawaii.

Currently, the law controlling recognition of architect licenses of other jurisdictions, or licensing by endorsement, allows the Board to determine whether licensing requirements of another jurisdiction are "satisfactory." Where there is some question, the Board may require the applicant to pass a written examination.

Administrative rules adopted by the Board provide for assessment of the qualifications of an applicant for a license by endorsement, and require an applicant for a license by endorsement to meet the State's generally applicable architect licensing standards, which include an examination on Hawaii law. This bill amends the license by endorsement provisions to better reflect the Board's administrative rules, and to affirm the Board's discretion in these matters.

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1065, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1065, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.