STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1425

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 130

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 130, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE STATE SHERIFF TO CREATE A WORKING GROUP TO DEVELOP A PLAN FOR COMBATING THE ILLICIT DRUG ABUSE EPIDEMIC IN THE STATE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the State Sheriff to create a working group to develop a course of action and possible operations that could be established and deployed to combat the drug epidemic in the State, and discuss cross jurisdictional issues, if any, among federal, state, and county law enforcement agencies.

 

     Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Public Safety.

 

     Your Committees find that abuse of illicit drugs is an epidemic that threatens the health, safety, and welfare of the people in Hawaii.  This measure helps the State explore all reasonable options in combatting illicit drug abuse across the State.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the Department of Public Safety and Department of Transportation jointly, rather than the State Sheriff, convene the working group;

 

     (2)  Adding a representative from the Department of Public Safety to the working group;

 

     (3)  Amending its title to reflect its amended purpose; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 130, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 130, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means,

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair