Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 3176 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require disclosure statements in sales of residential real property to disclose the former existence of methamphetamine manufacturing operations on a property, require the operator of a methamphetamine lab to pay for clean-up costs, and make the illegal disposal of methamphetamine waste a felony.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two individuals.

Your Committee finds that the use and production of methamphetamine has reached epidemic proportions in our State. In order to combat these problems, laws need to be enacted to address specific methamphetamine offenses and to protect the public. Your Committee believes that this measure will begin to help accomplish some of these goals.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make technical, non-substantive changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3176, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3176, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.