STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3767

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 122

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 122 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT A SUNRISE REVIEW OF THE REGULATION AND LICENSURE OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Auditor to conduct a sunrise review of the licensure of school psychologists.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Department of Education. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Board of Psychology.

Your Committees find that persons who hold themselves out as school psychologists are not presently required to undergo any formal credentialing by the State. Senate Bill No. 1274, introduced during the Regular Session of 2021, proposes the regulation and licensure of school psychologists. Section 26H-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires new measures subjecting unregulated professions and vocations to licensing or other regulatory controls to be referred, via concurrent resolution, to the Auditor for analysis. This measure requests the Auditor to analyze the proposed licensure of school psychologists in accordance with section 26H-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 122, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 122, S.D. 1.

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

________________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

________________________________ JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair