Requires that community organizations such as neighborhood boards and community associations be notified when halfway houses, clean and sober homes, or drug rehabilitation homes are being proposed to be situated in their community.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 46-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (e) to read as follows:

"(e) No permit shall be issued by a county agency for the operation of a halfway house, a clean and sober home, or a drug rehabilitation home unless a public informational meeting is first held in the affected community. The entity proposing to situate a halfway house, clean and sober home, or drug rehabilitation home in a community shall provide at least ninety days notification to the affected neighborhood boards and legislators that represent the district where the facility is to be located. The State shall provide notification and access to relevant information, as required, under chapter 846E.

A clean and sober home shall be considered a residential use of property and shall be a permitted or conditional use in residentially designated zones, including but not limited to zones for single-family dwellings."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.