Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1530, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the sunset provision for the drug demand reduction assessments special fund for 3 years.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, the Judiciary, and the Prosecutor for the City and County of Honolulu.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting the contents of H.B. No. 996 which makes the fund permanent.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1530, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1530, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.