STAND. COM. REP. NO. 474-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2695

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2695 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to create a substance-abuse prevention, education, and treatment special fund.

Testimony in support of this bill was offered by the Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, Drug Addiction Services of Hawaii, the Community Alliance on Prisons, the Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii and a concerned individual. Testimony in opposition was offered by the Honolulu Police Department, the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation and two concerned individuals.

Your Committee finds that this measure will provide sorely needed funds to address a chronic problem facing our community.

Your Committee has amended this bill by correcting the year referenced in §245-3(c).

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. 2695, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2695, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair