STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1472

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: S.B. No. 1365

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 1365, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to conduct criminal history record checks for applicants for physician licensure or license renewal through the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Medical Board; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; Hawaii Medical Association; Hawaiʻi Pacific Health; The Queen's Health Systems; Hawaii Medical Service Association; and Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi.

Your Committee finds that the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact is a pathway for expedited medical licensure that will expand access to care, streamline the licensing process for physicians, and facilitate multi-state practice and telemedicine. Through the enactment of Act 112, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, Hawaii joined more than thirty states, the District of Columbia, and Guam in adopting the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. Your Committee further finds that Hawaii Medical Board must be granted the explicit statutory authority to request criminal history record checks to effectuate its role in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. This measure authorizes the Hawaii Medical Board to perform criminal history record checks of applicants for physician licensure or license renewal through the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1365, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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SCOT Z. MATAYOSHI, Chair