CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 169

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2013

RE:    S.B. No. 1124

       S.D. 1

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam and Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 1124, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DIETITIAN LICENSURE SPECIAL FUND,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Health to expend fees from the dietitian licensure special fund to offset the expenses incurred relating to the licensing of dietitians.

     Your Committee on Conference finds that the Department of Health incurs significant expenses through its administration of the dietitian licensure program, which was implemented in August 2012 and issued twelve dietitian licenses as of November 30, 2012, with more applications being processed.  It is necessary to authorize the Department of Health to expend monies annually from the dietitian licensure special fund to offset expenses incurred through the administration of this program.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an amount of $30,000 as the ceiling for monies from the dietitian licensure special fund that may be used during any fiscal year for activities associated with administering the licensure program;

     (2)  Inserting a threshold amount of $35,000, above which any excess monies in the dietitian licensure special fund as of June 30 of each fiscal year shall be deposited into the general fund; and

     (3)  Changing the effective date to upon approval.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1124, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1124, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Co-Chair	____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair
____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Co-Chair	____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Co-Chair
____________________________ DEE MORIKAWA, Co-Chair	____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Co-Chair