STAND. COM. REP. 111

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 682

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 682 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PREVENT CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE USE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for education programs to prevent the use of crystal methamphetamine.

The Department of Health; Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, City and County of Honolulu; Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Maui; and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure. The Department of Education supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committees find that the use of crystal methamphetamine in Hawaii has reached alarming rates, and that an enormous percentage of state inmates have a history of substance abuse. Your Committees believe the State's focus should be on prevention, to avoid costs of rehabilitation after an individual is already addicted to crystal methamphetamine.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to $1 to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, clarity, and conformity.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 682, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 682,

H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Education,

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair