STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2266

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2882

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2882 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to update chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with amendments to federal law on controlled substances, as required under chapter 329-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and the Honolulu Police Department.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to make Hawaii's Uniform Controlled Substance Act, chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, consistent with changes to federal law.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting language to amend section 329-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by adding a new federally scheduled controlled substance to make that section consistent with amendments to federal law on controlled substances; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2882, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2882, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair