STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3125

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2039

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DECONTAMINATION OF ILLEGAL DRUG MANUFACTURING SITES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to eliminate the threat to public health posed by toxic chemicals left behind by illegal drug manufacturing by directing the Department of Health to develop procedures and guidelines for emergency and long-term decontamination and clean-up of illegal methamphetamine manufacturing sites.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, the Department of Public Safety, City and County of Honolulu Police Department, a member of the Hawaii County Council, the Mililani Town Anti-Drug Committee, Kuli'ou'ou/Kalani Iki Neighborhood Board #2, the American Industrial Hygiene Association, Hawaii section, and two individuals.

Your Committees find that prompt, safe, and efficient decontamination of illegal methamphetamine manufacturing sites is necessary to enable individuals to safely re-occupy these premises.

Your Committees have amended this measure in response to the concerns of the Department of Health by including a sunset provision limiting the Chapter 91 exemption to allow the department to adopt interim rules. Your Committees further amended this measure by replacing the defective effective date with July 1, 2006.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair