Bill Text: HI SB965 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Professional and Vocational Licensing; Military Spouses; Licensure by Endorsement or Reciprocity
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-24 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-13 9:30AM in conference room 312. [SB965 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB965-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 566
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 965
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 965 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish:
(1) Qualifications for nonresident military spouses eligible for expedited procedures for professional and vocational licensing by endorsement or reciprocity, and temporary licensing; and
(2) Requirements for nonresident military spouses to maintain licenses and report changes in status or circumstances that may affect licensure.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Professional and Vocational Licensing Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.
Your Committee finds many military spouses accompany their service member spouses on military duty assignments. Your Committee further finds that this measure tracks efforts led by the current Presidential Administration to simplify and expedite the employment of trained, educated, and highly qualified military spouses who accompany their service member spouses on military duty assignments. Your Committee also finds that this measure, as introduced, requires an otherwise qualified military spouse to have been stationed in Hawaii for at least one year, thus delaying the certification process by at least one year. Amendments to this measure are therefore necessary to clarify this language.
Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the qualifications for a "nonresident military spouse" include being married to a service member spouse who is stationed in Hawaii pursuant to military permanent change of station orders issued by the United States Department of Defense.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 965, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 965, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,
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____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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