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. 2410, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend statutory provisions to conform to the federal Uniform Controlled Substances Act enacted in 2005.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu.

Your Committee finds that new federal regulations that affect chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statues, will take effect on September 30, 2006. This measure will amend various sections of chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to conform to the new federal regulations.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity and style.

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. 2410, 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. 2410, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.