Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2370 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to update the Uniform Controlled Substances Act (UCSA) to conform it to amendments to the federal Controlled Substances Act.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and State Attorney General.

This is a housekeeping measure. Your Committee finds that periodically the UCSA must be amended in order to conform to the federal Controlled Substances Act. This measure adds the depressant drug Zopiclone "Lunesta" to the list of schedule IV depressants.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2370 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.