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 S.B. No. 1313 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require moneys from the criminal forfeiture revolving fund be used for drug treatment programs.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from A Woman's Voice International, Community Alliance on Prisons, Drug Action Policy Forum, and Drug Policy Action Group. Two individuals also submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Attorney General and the Honolulu Police Department submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure should be kept alive for continued discussion and to provide the Attorney General an opportunity to pursue a Memorandum of Agreement with the federal government that would require the Attorney General to serve as a clearinghouse for all forfeited property in order to control the amount and use of forfeited property and moneys.

Your Committee has amended this measure to change the effective date to a defective effective date of July 1, 2050 in order to keep this measure alive for further discussion.

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 S.B. No. 1313, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1313, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.