STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1621

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 1180

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1180 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the procedure to emergency schedule a controlled substances by:

     (1)  Providing criteria that that Administrator of the Narcotics Enforcement Division of the Department of Public Safety shall consider when determining whether a substance should be emergency scheduled; and

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Public Safety to post a public notice at the State Capitol, in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, and on the Department's website thirty days prior to the effective date of any emergency scheduling act.

The Department of the Attorney General and Department of Public Safety provided testimony in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by 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 S.B. No. 1180, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1180, H.D. 1.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair