STAND. COM. REP. NO.  490-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2332

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2332 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to update Hawaii's Uniform Controlled Substances Act, Chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to be consistent with changes in federal law, as required by section 329-11, HRS.

The Department of Public Safety and Honolulu Police Department testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding the substance perampanel into schedule III of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2332, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2332, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair