STAND. COM. REP. NO.1128

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1217

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1217, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend Hawaii's Uniform Controlled Substances Act, Chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statues, to conform to federal law.

The Department of Public Safety and the City and County of Honolulu Police Department submitted testimony supporting this measure.

Your Committee finds that conformance of Hawaii's Uniform Controlled Substances Act with federal law is necessary for more effective drug enforcement and clarity in dispensing of prescriptive drugs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Amending section 329-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by adding to the list of hallucinogenic substances of Schedule I;

(2) Amending section 329-61, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by adding chemicals to List 1, deleting chemicals from List 2, and adding a provision allowing the Department of Health to make corresponding additions or deletions by rule when changes to List 1 or 2 are made under federal law;

(3) Adding a definition of "unlawfully manufacture" for the purposes of determining penalties under the Uniform Controlled Substances Act; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity.

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 H.B. No. 1217, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1217, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair