Report Title:

Mental Health Counselors; Licensing

Description:

Repeals the sunset date of December 31, 2008, for Chapter 453D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to preserve the provisions set in Hawaii's laws dealing with licensure for mental health counselors.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2175
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 26H-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§26H-4  Repeal dates for newly enacted professional and vocational regulatory programs.  [(a)]  Any professional or vocational regulatory program enacted after January 1, 1994, and listed in this section shall be repealed on December 31, 2008.  The auditor shall perform an evaluation of the program, pursuant to section 26H-5, prior to its repeal date.

     [(b)  Chapter 453D (mental health counselors) shall be repealed on December 31, 2008.]"

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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