STAND. COM. REP. NO.  200-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1708

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1708 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICINE AND SURGERY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a limited exemption from the State's licensing requirements for visiting sports team physicians to allow them to provide care to their traveling team members and coaching staff for a specific sporting event or at a national sport training center in the State.

The Queen's Health Systems, Hawaii Medical Association, and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Medical Board commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2070, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for consistency and style.

     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 H.B. No. 1708, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1708, H.D. 1, and be referred to your 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