STAND. COM. REP. NO.  465-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2298

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2298 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTISTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to prevent dentists from falsely claiming to be a specialist without having had proper training and certification by authorizing the Board of Dental Examiners (BDE) to sanction licensees for false or misleading advertising.

     The Hawaii Dental Association supported this bill.  BDE opposed this measure.

     Your committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Inserting a savings clause; and

     (2)  Changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 2298, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2298, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair