Bill Text: HI HB847 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Medical Board; Summary Suspension of a License; Physical and Mental Examination Order
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-02 - Act 219, 6/27/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1322). [HB847 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HB847-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 855
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 847
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 847, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENFORCEMENT TOOLS TO IMPROVE PATIENT SAFETY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting language that allows the Board's delegate to summarily suspend any license to protect the public from immediate or unreasonable threats, or fraud;
(2) Deleting language that allows the Board to summarily suspend any license to protect the public from misrepresentation;
(3) Clarifying that the authority to summarily suspend any license is for fraud that jeopardizes or endangers the health or safety of patients as determined by the professional standard of care;
(4) Specifying that an order summarily suspending a license shall remain in effect until the effective date of a final decision and order issued by the Board or the effective date of an order issued by the Board terminating the summary suspension following a hearing, whichever occurs first, but in either case shall not exceed thirty business days;
(5) Specifying that the Board shall conduct a hearing for disciplinary action against a licensee whose license has been summarily suspended within ten business days from the effective date of the order of summary suspension;
(6) Adding language that specifies certain immunities for a person licensed by the Board who provides certain information to the Board; and
(7) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity, consistency, and style.
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 H.B. No. 847, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 847, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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