Bill Text: HI SB1332 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Respiratory Care Practitioners; Licensing

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1332 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1332-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1042

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1332

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1332, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTHCARE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure safety and quality care for patients who receive services from respiratory care practitioners by establishing licensure requirements for the respiratory care profession.

 

     This bill further provides an exemption for certain health care professions, from the required auditor's analysis for unregulated professions, that the Legislature deems to be in the best interest to be licensed for participation in federal programs.

 

     The Hawaii Medical Association, American Association for Respiratory Care, Hawaii Chronic Obstruction Pulmonary Disease Coalition, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Hawaii Society for Respiratory Care supported this measure with amendments.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs opposed this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Deleting references to the Respiratory Care Practitioner Board;

 

(2)  Providing that the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (Director) will have the responsibility of overseeing licensure of respiratory care practitioners, including the development of rules;

 

(3)  Authorizing the Director to establish a Respiratory Care Practitioner Advisory Board; and

 

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1332, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1332, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair