STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2491

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2033

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, 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 and intent of this measure is to make technical, nonsubstantive amendments to the rulemaking authority of the Board of Dental Examiners.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Dental Examiners.

     Your Committee finds that this measure makes nonsubstantive changes to section 448-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by specifying that the Board of Dental Examiners shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2033 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair