STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2346

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2931

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2931 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTISTRY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the ethics training requirement for dentists in the continuing education program to be six hours of ethics training within the previous two years.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Dental Examiners, Hawaii Dental Association, and twenty-eight individuals.

Your Committees find that this measure amends the ethics training requirements for dentists to six hours over the course of two years, rather than requiring three hours of ethics training each year. Your Committees note that this measure does not change the total amount of ethics training required for dentists over a two-year period; rather, this measure provides greater flexibility for dentists to schedule and complete this training.

Your Committees have amended this measure by clarifying that a dentist licensee must complete at least six hours of ethics training in the previous two-year licensing biennium to comply with the continuing education requirements for license renewal.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2931, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2931, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Judiciary,

________________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair

________________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair