Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1217 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to conform Hawaii's Uniform Controlled Substances Act to federal law.

The Department of Public Safety and the Honolulu Police Department testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this measure brings state law into compliance with federal law as required by section 329-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee has amended this bill to:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1217, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1217, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.