Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 67 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request that the State Auditor conduct a sunrise review regarding the regulation of certified athletic trainers.

The Hawaii Athletic Trainers' Association supported this concurrent resolution. The Department of Education did not support the measure.

Your Committee finds that although "certified athletic trainers" receive certification through the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification, there is ambiguity of this field as a health care profession. A sunrise review by the State Auditor would provide information on the necessity, if any, of regulating or licensing certified athletic trainers.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 67 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.