STAND. COM. REP. NO. 916
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 667
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 667, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Removing language that would have provided immunity from searches, seizures, and prosecution for marijuana-related offenses for qualifying patients transporting medical marijuana;
(2) Specifying that Hawaii medical marijuana authorization will be extended to qualified patients from out-of-state only if the visiting patients have in their possession a valid registry identification card issued in another jurisdiction of the United States;
(3) Clarifying that any visiting qualified patient who is in Hawaii for thirty-one days or more shall register with the State's medical use of marijuana program;
(4) Requiring each primary caregiver to include the number of qualifying patients for which they are responsible in their registration with the Department of Health and to notify the Department in writing of any change to that number;
(5) Requiring that the number of qualified patients for whom a primary caregiver is responsible be included on any registration card issued to the primary caregiver; and
(6) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 667, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 667, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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