STAND. COM. REP. NO. 636

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 926
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 926, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION
     ASSESSMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to add additional substance
abuse offenses upon which drug demand reduction assessments may
be imposed.

     The bill also authorizes the expenditure of $33,000 from the
drug demand reduction assessment special fund for fiscal year
1999-2000 for mandatory substance abuse treatment for
incarcerated inmates.

     Your Committee finds that the purpose of the drug demand
reduction assessment special fund is to provide additional moneys
for drug treatment and other drug demand reduction programs.
Your Committee believes that it is appropriate that the cost of
administrating the drug demand reduction assessment special fund
and the burden of paying for drug demand reduction programs be
borne by those who are convicted of substance abuse offenses
instead of by law abiding taxpayers.  Therefore, convicted drug
offenders should be required to contribute to programs that treat

 
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drug users and programs that will help prevent the use of drugs
in our communities.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the underscored material relating to
          expenditures by the Department of Health from the
          special fund at page 2, lines 20 through page 3, line
          1;

     (2)  Inserting an appropriation section, as section 2 of the
          bill, to appropriate an unspecified amount from the
          drug demand reduction assessments special fund for
          fiscal years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 to supplement drug
          treatment and other drug demand reduction programs; and

     (3)  Renumbering the remaining sections consecutively.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.
No. 926, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 926,
S.D. 2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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