STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1094

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1614

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1614, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRUGS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to support efforts to reduce and eliminate drug nuisances by appropriating funds for the enforcement and prosecution of drug nuisance abatement laws and to fund additional positions in the Drug Nuisance Abatement Unit of the Department of the Attorney General (AG).

     The AG supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1614, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1614, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair