STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1266

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1491

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1491, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to strengthen enforcement of Hawaii's drug laws by authorizing the use of the Controlled Substance Registration Revolving Fund to:

 

(1)  Offset the cost of investigating violations of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act; and

 

(2)  Fund the Narcotics Enforcement Division's forensic drug laboratory facility.

 

     The Department of Public Safety testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Conforming Hawaii's controlled substance schedules to changes made in federal law as mandated by sections 329-11 and 329-61, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by inserting the provisions of S.B. No. 1487, S.D. 1; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct drafting errors and for consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1491, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1491, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair