STAND. COM. REP. NO.  800-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2736

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2736 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROMOTION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the prohibition of promoting a controlled substance in, on, or near schools, school vehicles, or public parks to include public housing projects and complexes.

The Department of Public Safety and a concerned individual supported the measure.  The Hawaii Public Housing Authority supported the measure with amendments.  The Office of the Public Defender and the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii opposed the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Amending the definition of "public housing project or complex" to include housing projects established under state as well as federal low-rent public housing programs; and 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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. 2736, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2736, H.D. 1.

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

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair