Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1995, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the crime of endangering the welfare of a minor in the first degree and second degree to include the illegal use of a controlled substance in the presence of a minor.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety. The Office of the Public Defender submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure will assist in protecting Hawaii's minors from the harmful effects of being exposed to the illegal use of controlled substances and the toxic chemicals used in their processing.

Your Committee has amended this measure to change the effective date from July 1, 2096, to July 1, 2006.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1995, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1995, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.