STAND. COM. REP. NO.  802

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1149

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1149 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRUGS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for possession, in the presence of a child, of precursor chemicals for manufacturing a controlled substance.

     The Department of Public Safety and the Honolulu Police Department supported this bill.  The Office of the Public Defender opposed this measure.

     Your committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1149, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1149, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair