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.B. No. 519 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the licensure of experienced dental hygienists who are licensed in another state with education and patient care licensing standards at least equivalent to Hawaii's standards.

Basically, this measure grants a license without examination to applicants who hold a license from another state and meet education, work experience, and ethical conduct requirements.

Your Committee finds that additional specific criteria for licensure without examination are necessary to place out-of-state licensees on a more equal footing with licensees from this State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by expanding the prerequisites to include continuing education requirements and the absence of prior, unsuccessful attempts at the state or regional examinations. Your Committee has also amended this measure by requiring the Board of Dental Examiners to identify state and regional examinations that are comparable to the State's examinations and by establishing an application review panel to assist the board.

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. 519, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 519, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.