STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1142-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2931

S.D. 1

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 Health & Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2931, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTISTRY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the continuing education ethics requirement for dentists to require six hours of ethics training within each two-year licensing biennium instead of requiring three hours annually.

The Board of Dental Examiners, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, and several concerned individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure. Hawaii Dental Association provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2931, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2931, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Intrastate Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Human Services,

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair