Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2429 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Make the cigarette stamp tax permanent;

Your Committees received testimony in support of this bill from the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committees have amended this bill by deleting expanded forfeiture provisions that would apply to any instrumentality, proceeds, or property obtained with proceeds from activities violating chapter 245, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Your Committees note that the cigarette stamp tax law already specifies the maximum amounts of fines that may be imposed for violations.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Consumer Protection and Commerce that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2429, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2429, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.