STAND. COM. REP. NO. 808

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1201

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1201, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ILLEGAL USE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for state agencies and the counties for crystal methamphetamine (ice) treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, education, environmental damage assessment, and program monitoring initiatives.

Your Committee finds that the joint house-senate task force on "ice" convened in 2003 recommended the formulation of a multi-pronged approach that combined treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, public education, crime prevention, and law enforcement initiatives designed to prevent future generations from engaging in substance abuse as well as to treat the present generation of ice abusers. This measure sustains and expands these important efforts to ensure that the public health crisis represented by the abuse of ice does not fade into the background.

Your Committee has amended this measure by placing the expending authority within the respective sections appropriating funds to clarify which funds the named agencies are authorized to expend.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1201, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1201, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair