Bill Text: HI SB2053 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Athletic Trainers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-06-29 - Act 058, 06/27/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1159). [SB2053 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-SB2053-Amended.html
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO ATHLETIC TRAINERS.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that chapter 436H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which establishes a regulatory scheme for athletic trainers, is scheduled to sunset on June 30, 2018.
The legislature further finds that Auditor Report No. 17-08 recommended that the current registration requirement for athletic trainers should be extended. Specifically, the Auditor's Report found that:
(1) Athletic trainers are healthcare professionals who provide injury prevention, treatment and assessment of injuries, and rehabilitation of injuries, among other services. Athletic trainers also provide emergency medical care and are involved in concussion monitoring and education. The services that an athletic trainer provides may affect the health and safety of athletes, and the proficiencies required by the current regulatory scheme are reasonably necessary to protect athletes under an athletic trainer's care;
(2) The current regulation of athletic trainers does not impose unreasonable restrictions on individuals entering the profession and does not meaningfully increase the cost of athletic trainer services; and
(3) The public interest requires that the profession of athletic trainer continue to be regulated and the program requiring athletic trainers to register with the department of commerce and consumer affairs be continued.
The legislature additionally
finds that the regulation of athletic trainers should be made permanent in the
interest of public health and safety.
Accordingly,
the purpose of
this Act is to make permanent the regulation of athletic trainers under
chapter 436H, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
SECTION 2. Section 26H-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§26H-4 Repeal dates for newly enacted professional and vocational regulatory programs. (a) Any professional or vocational regulatory program enacted after January 1, 1994, and listed in this section shall be repealed as specified in this section. The auditor shall perform an evaluation of the program, pursuant to section 26H-5, prior to its repeal date.
[(b) Chapter 436H (athletic trainers) shall be
repealed on June 30, 2018.
(c)]
(b) Chapter 465D (behavior
analysts) shall be repealed on June 30, 2021.
[(d)]
(c) Chapter 466L (appraisal
management companies) shall be repealed on June 30, 2023."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2018.
Report Title:
Athletic Trainers; Regulation; Sunset Repeal
Description:
Makes permanent the regulation of athletic trainers. (CD1)
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
