STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1368

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1157

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1157 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DANGEROUS DRUGS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to delete an obsolete reference in the law pertaining to the offense of promoting a dangerous drug in the second degree.

     Your Committee finds that the Legislature repealed Section 712-1240.6 with Act 230 of 2006.  However, inadvertently, reference to that section was not deleted from Section 712-1242.  This bill rectifies the oversight.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the bill from the Honolulu Prosecutor's Office.  There was no opposition to the bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.

No. 1157, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair