STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1069-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2935
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Public
Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2935,
S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DANGEROUS DRUGS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require drug treatment for
persons convicted of Promoting a Dangerous Drug in the First, the
Second, and the Third Degrees.

     The Honolulu Police Department, the Office of the Public
Defender, and the Community Alliance on Prisons testified in
support of the measure.  The Department of the Prosecuting
Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu testified in support
of the intent of the measure.  The Hawaii Psychiatric Medical
Association testified in support of the measure with amendments.
The Department of Public Safety, and the American Civil Liberties
Union of Hawaii provided comments.

     Your Committees find that many offenders of class B and
class C felony drug offenses could well benefit from drug
treatment while on probation.  Such individuals are presently
precluded from this form of sentencing by current laws.





 
 
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     Your Committees amended this bill by:

     1.   Inserting provisions that repeal the mandatory minimum
          terms of imprisonment for class B and class C drug
          offenses involving the possession or distribution of
          methamphetamines; and

     2.   Deleting the provisions regarding mandatory treatment
          for incarcerated methamphetamine offender and inserting
          provisions requiring drug treatment for offenders
          placed on probation; such treatment to be paid by the
          offender.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety
and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2935, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2935, S.D.
1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Judiciary and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs and Public
                                   Safety and Military Affairs,





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NESTOR R. GARCIA, Chair            ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair