STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1053

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 1075

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1075 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PHYSICAL THERAPY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure sound standards and competence within the physical therapy profession by among other things:

     (1)  Requiring physical therapists who practice in the State to submit evidence of completing a specified amount of continuing competence units when renewing their license to practice physical therapy;

     (2)  Specifying content standards and subject matter requirements for continuing competence;

     (3)  Stipulating the authorized providers of continuing competence units; and

     (4)  Requiring the physical therapist to submit evidence of completion of the required continuing competence units.

The Board of Physical Therapy, The Queen's Medical Center, and the Hawaii Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association supported this measure.  

     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 S.B. No. 1075 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair