Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2507 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to deter the sale of drug paraphernalia used to ingest a controlled substance by making it unlawful to sell, distribute, or possess such paraphernalia with the intent to sell or distribute in reckless disregard of the risk.

The Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Department of Public Safety, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, and the Honolulu Police Department testified in support of this bill. The Office of the Public Defender provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by removing the provision that specifies that the drug paraphernalia be used primarily for, among other things, introducing a controlled substance into the human body.

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 H.B. No. 2507, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2507, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.