STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3263

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 46

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 46 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE STATE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT A SUNRISE REVIEW OF THE REGULATION OF VETERINARY TECHNICIANS AND THE PRACTICE OF VETERINARY TECHNOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Auditor to conduct a sunrise review of the regulation of veterinary technicians and the practice of veterinary technology.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Regulated Industries Complaints Office of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Board of Veterinary Examiners, and Hawaii Veterinary Medical Association.

     Your Committee finds that veterinary technicians and the practice of veterinary technology are not currently licensed or regulated in the State.  Your Committee also finds that Senate Bill No. 2502, S.D. 1 (2014), proposes to establish requirements for the regulation of veterinary technicians and the practice of veterinary technology.  Section 26H-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires that new measures that would subject unregulated professions and vocations to licensing or other regulatory controls be referred to the Auditor for a sunrise review.  Your Committee further finds that the requested sunrise review is a necessary step in establishing regulation of veterinary technicians and the practice of veterinary technology, which will improve the level of care of animals in the State.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 46 and recommends its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair