STAND. COM. REP. NO. 210-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2062

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Intrastate Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2062 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ATHLETIC TRAINERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect the health and safety of athletes in Hawaii by:

(1) Making permanent the requirements of chapter 436H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regulating athletic trainers; and

(2) Exempting from regulation individuals temporarily accompanying teams to Hawaii for an athletic or sporting event from a state that does not regulate athletic trainers.

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Athletic Trainers' Association supported this measure. The Office of the Auditor submitted comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring that individuals exempted from regulation because they are temporarily accompanying teams to Hawaii for an athletic or sporting event from a state that does not regulate athletic trainers to be certified by the National Athletic Trainers' Association or the Board of Certification for the Athletic Trainer;

(2) Providing that the regulatory exemption for individuals who are temporarily accompanying teams to Hawaii for an athletic or sporting event from a state that does not regulate athletic trainers will expire in three years;

(3) Changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intrastate Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2062, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2062, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Intrastate Commerce,

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TAKASHI OHNO, Chair