STAND. COM. REP. NO.  914

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1548

      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. 1548 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRUG TREATMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the rehabilitation of convicted drug offenders by allowing the courts the option of sentencing certain offenders to secured drug treatment facilities as an alternative to incarceration. 

     The Office of the Public Defender supported the intent of this bill.

     Your Committee finds that this measure provides an alternative method to treat drug offenders and may help to reduce the incidence of drug recidivism.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2112.

     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. 1548, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1548, H.D. 1.

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

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair