STAND. COM. REP. NO.  514

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1335

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1335 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHAPTER 460, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, OSTEOPATHY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to conform the osteopathy licensing laws to those governing physicians.

     More specifically, this bill adds provisions regarding educational teaching licenses, training replacement temporary licenses, the duty to report wounds, consent to a postmortem examination, the intentional termination of a pregnancy, exemptions from licensure, limited and temporary licenses, continuing education, and denials of licenses for osteopaths.

     The Board of Medical Examiners and the Hawaii Medical Association submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     Your Committee finds that the Board of Medical Examiners regulates the licensing procedures for both doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathy.

     Since both kinds of doctors are similar in many respects, including their scope of practice, your Committee finds that they should be subject to regulation in as uniform a manner as possible.  This measure incorporates into the osteopathy law provisions that currently are applicable only to medical doctors, thereby promoting uniformity of the regulatory structures.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1335 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair