STAND. COM. REP. NO. 749

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 947

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 947, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CITATIONS FOR BEAUTY CULTURE VIOLATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to improve the regulation of beauty culture licensees and permittees.

     More specifically, the measure:

     (1)  Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to issue citations for certain violations of laws and administrative rules that apply to beauty culture licensees and permittees; and

     (2)  Establishes a process for cited beauty culture licensees and permittees to contest the citation.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Regulated Industries Complaints Office of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology.

     Your Committee finds that authorizing the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to issue citations for technical violations of laws and administrative rules pertaining to beauty culture licensees and permittees will promote compliance with those laws and administrative rules, and will enable the department's Regulated Industries Complaints Office to focus its personnel and other resources on more serious violations.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that name tags that shall be worn by certain beauty school employees during hours of instruction shall state the employee's full name, and that signs displayed in beauty school reception and work rooms shall be displayed in each of those rooms using letters not less than one-half inch high.

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 947, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 947, S.D. 2.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair