STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1374

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 305

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 305, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require that security surveillance video recordings of medical marijuana production centers and retail dispensing locations be retained for a period of forty-five days.  

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Hawaii Educational Association for Licensed Therapeutic Healthcare, Cure Oahu, Maui Grown Therapies, and an individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2070, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 305, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 305, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair