[§448B-5]  Licensure requirements.  In
addition to the application requirements provided by section 436B-10, the
director shall adopt rules as deemed necessary for the licensure of dietitians
to protect public health and safety, and may consider the following as minimum
evidence that an applicant is qualified to be licensed:



(1)  The applicant received a baccalaureate degree or
post-baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university
with a major course of study in dietetics, human nutrition, food and nutrition,
or food systems management, or academic requirements related thereto, approved
by the commission on accreditation, or meets equivalent core requirements for
the dietetics option at the University of Hawaii.  In addition to basic dietetic
principles of nutrition, human physiology, biochemistry, and behavioral and
social sciences, course work shall include at least nine semester credits (or
twelve quarter hours) relating to food science and food preparation. 
Applicants who have obtained their education outside of the United States and
its territories shall have their academic degree validated by an agency
authorized to validate foreign academic degrees as being equivalent to a
baccalaureate, master's, or doctoral degree conferred by a regionally
accredited college or university in the United States.  Validation of a foreign
degree shall include a verification statement of completion of the major course
of study or related academic requirements, basic dietetic principles, and
course work specified in this paragraph;



(2)  Satisfactorily complete a documented supervised
practice experience component in dietetic practice of not less than nine
hundred hours approved by the commission on accreditation;



(3)  Pass the registration examination for dietitians
administered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration; and



(4)  Submit a report of any disciplinary action
relating to dietetics practice taken against the applicant in another
jurisdiction.



An individual who provides evidence of current
registration in the association shall be deemed to have met the educational and
supervised practice experience requirements of this section. [L 2000, c 280, pt
of §2]