Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.R. No. 70 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the State of Hawaii to consider the merits of recognizing hypnotherapy as a legitimate profession, and hypnotherapists as providers of human services separate and independent from other mental health professions.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Hypnotherapy Association, Aloha Chapter of the National Guild of Hypnotherapists, and three individuals.

Your Committees find that hypnotherapy is a legitimate form of alternative health care and is listed as a separate profession in the United States Department of Labor's Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, non-substantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 70, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 70, S.D. 1.