Report Title:

Industrial Hemp Research

 

Description:

Makes permanent Act 305, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, which allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

57

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to agriculture.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to make permanent Act 305, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, which allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii when the department of public safety issues a controlled substance registration and the United States Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, issues a federally-controlled substance registration for research on the agronomic potential of industrial hemp.

SECTION 2. Act 305, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, is amended by amending section 6 to read as follows:

"SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval[, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2002]."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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