SB 114-1_ Filed 01/26/2005, 14:48

COMMITTEE REPORT




MADAM PRESIDENT:

    The Senate Committee on Health and Provider Services, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 114, has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that said bill be AMENDED as follows:

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    Page 2, line 8, delete "(5)" and insert " (4)".
    Page 2, line 17, strike "may be removed for cause by" and insert " serves at the pleasure of".
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SOURCE: IC 25-20.5-1-11; (05)AM011402.2. -->     "SECTION 2. IC 25-20.5-1-11 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2005]: Sec. 11. (a) An individual who applies for a certificate as a hypnotist must do the following:
        (1) Present satisfactory evidence to the committee that the individual:
            (A) does not have a conviction for a crime that has a direct bearing on the individual's ability to practice competently; and
            (B) has not been the subject of a disciplinary action by a licensing or certification agency of another state or jurisdiction on the grounds that the individual was not able to practice as a hypnotist without endangering the public. and
            (C) has at least five hundred (500) classroom hours of hypnotism education from an Indiana school or program of hypnotism that is approved by the Indiana commission on

proprietary education (referred to as "the commission" in this clause) under IC 20-1-19 or from any other state approved school or program that is found by the commission to have requirements as stringent as necessary for the commission's approval of an Indiana school or program of hypnotism. A classroom hour may not be less than a fifty (50) minute period of instruction with both the instructor and student in attendance. Classroom instruction does not include video tape correspondence courses or other forms of electronic presentation.
        (2) Pay the fee established by the board.
    (b) An individual may not enroll in a school or program of hypnotism to satisfy the requirement under subsection (a)(1)(C) unless the individual:
        (1) is at least eighteen (18) years of age; and
        (2) has graduated from high school or received a:
            (A) high school equivalency certificate; or
            (B) state of Indiana general education development (GED) diploma under IC 20-10.1-12.1.

SOURCE: IC 25-20.5-1-14; (05)AM011402.3. -->     SECTION 3. IC 25-20.5-1-14 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2005]: Sec. 14. To obtain a certificate under this chapter, an individual who satisfies the requirements of section 11 of this chapter may must take the examination provided by the committee and obtain a passing score on the examination as determined by the committee.".
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    Renumber all SECTIONS consecutively.
    (Reference is to SB 114 as introduced.)

and when so amended that said bill do pass .

Committee Vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0.

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Senator Miller, Chairperson


AM 011402/DI 104    2005