Bill Text: HI HB845 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Acupuncturists; Doctor of Acupuncture Title

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Carroll, Har, Oshiro, Takumi excused (4). [HB845 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB845-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  57

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 845

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 845 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE USE OF THE DOCTOR OF ACUPUNCTURE TITLE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the processing of licenses for the practice of acupuncture by:

 

(1)  Clarifying the requirements for licensees who graduate from American institutions and intend to use the title of "doctor of acupuncture";

 

(2)  Repealing the requirement that the Board of Acupuncture adopt rules to establish standards for the use of the title "doctor"; and

 

(3)  Requiring licensees who graduate from foreign institutions and intend to use the title of "doctor of acupuncture" to have their transcripts and curriculum evaluated by a professional evaluator.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Acupuncture, the Hawaii Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture Association, Aloha Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture Association, and the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure by a concerned individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will assist the Board of Acupuncture in effectively executing the responsibility of ensuring that only qualified applicants are licensed to practice acupuncture in Hawaii.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 845 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair