STAND. COM. REP. NO. 532

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 13

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 13 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to expand doctoral degree requirements for licensing of psychologists to include additional doctoral programs accredited by the American Psychological Association.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Psychology and Hawai‘i Psychological Association.

     Your Committee finds that this measure expands the doctoral degree requirement for psychologist licensure to include additional doctoral programs accredited by the American Psychological Association.  This will expand the scope of doctoral level education, internship training, and post-doctoral specialty training and allow for greater opportunities for licensure.

     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. 13 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