Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 700 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make state law consistent by deleting any reference to Department of Health rules concerning poisons that no longer exist, and make the adoption of rules concerning poisons optional rather than mandatory.

The Lieutenant Governor and the Department of Health testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that when chapter 330, Hawaii Revised Statutes, was originally enacted more than a century ago, the laws to regulate the sale of poisons were virtually nonexistent. Today, poisons are effectively regulated under other federal and state laws.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 700, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 700, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.