STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1344-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2033

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 2033 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTISTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that rules adopted by the Board of Dental Examiners shall be adopted pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Hawaii Administrative Procedure Act.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Board of Dental Examiners.

     Your Committee finds that this measure makes a technical nonsubstantive amendment to the rulemaking authority of the Board of Dental Examiners.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2014.

     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 S.B. No. 2033, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2033, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair