HB 1379: FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES; LICENSURE; HAWAII MEDICAL BOARD

Session Year: 2025-2026
House: House
Latest Version Date: 2025-03-20

Current Status:

Passed

(2025-06-04: Act 174, on 06/04/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1274).)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Final Decking

Enacted

Version:

Allows a pathway for foreign medical school graduates to be licensed as physicians that was previously only available to graduates who passed the qualifying examination of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates before 1984. Establishes an alternative pathway for the licensure as physicians for foreign medical graduates who passed certain examinations, possess an Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates certificate, and have completed two years of post-graduate medical training. (SD1)

Discussed in Hearing