Bill Text: HI SB2188 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Dentistry; Teeth Whitening

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-18 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting no (0) and Cabanilla, Finnegan, Manahan, M. Oshiro excused (4). [SB2188 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2188-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  828-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2188

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2188 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTISTRY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect consumers by including teeth whitening in the definition of the practice of dentistry.

 

     The Board of Dental Examiners, Hawaii Dental Association, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' Regulated Industries Complaint Office provided comments.

 

     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. 2188 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,

 

 

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair