STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3417

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 91

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 91 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO PERFORM A SUNRISE ANALYSIS OF THE REGULATION OF CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL MIDWIVES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Auditor to perform a sunrise analysis of the regulation of certified professional midwives, as proposed in H.B. No. 1899, H.D. 1 (2016).

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

     Your Committee finds that a certified professional midwife is a person who has met the standards for certification set by the North American Registry of Midwives and is qualified to provide the Midwives Model of Care.  Your Committee further finds that the Legislature needs answers to whether the unregulated practice of a certified professional midwife harms the public, whether the harm is due to incompetent practice, and whether private certification without governmental regulation is sufficient to protect the public.

     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. 91 and recommends its adoption.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair