Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2423 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide for equitable regulation of the barbering and beauty culture professions, by allowing the restoration of a lapsed cosmetology license beyond the present three-year lapsing period.

Testimony in support of this bill was received from the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (Board).

Your Committee finds an inconsistency in the treatment of lapsed licenses between the barbering and the beauty culture professions, although both are licensed under the same Board. While the beauty culture profession is limited to a three-year lapsing period before losing their licenses, the barbering profession allows the Board to consider and approve restoration

after a longer lapsing period, based on the circumstances under which the license lapsed.

This bill proposes to address this inconsistency by amending the beauty culture statute to allow the Board to consider and approve restoration of lapsed licenses beyond the three-year limitation.

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 H.B. No. 2423 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.