Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2430 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to expand the choices of disciplinary sanctions the Board of Medical Examiners and the Board of Osteopathic Examiners may impose by adding the sanctions of censure and reprimand for both.

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Board of Medical Examiners, Hawaii Medical Association, and Hawaii Medical Service Association supported this measure.

Your Committee finds that most states have graduated steps for disciplinary sanctions and that this bill would provide the Board of Medical Examiners and the Board of Osteopathic Examiners with intermediate sanctions that are currently lacking in the State of Hawaii.

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. 2430 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.