STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 667-22
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2022
RE: H.B. No. 2338
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2022
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health, Human Services, & Homelessness and Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2338 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE DRUG AND ALCOHOL TOXICOLOGY TESTING LABORATORY,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The
purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Appropriate funds from the State Highway Fund to the Department of Health's State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory Special Fund for fiscal year 2022-2023; and
(2) Authorize the Department of Health to expend these funds for the establishment of the State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory.
Your Committees find
that Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021 (Act 196), among other things, established
the State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory Special Fund to be
used for the cost of establishing a State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing
Laboratory. A drug and alcohol
toxicology testing laboratory within the State is needed to provide law
enforcement and prosecutors with resources to protect the public from impaired
drivers.
Your Committees
further find that the State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory
Special Fund was to be funded with monies appropriated from the State Highway
Fund; however, Act 196 failed to make this appropriation. This measure addresses that oversight by providing
the Department of Health with startup funding from the State Highway Fund
necessary to establish the State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory.
Your
Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the appropriations from the State
Highway Fund and State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory Special
Fund to unspecified amounts;
(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2060,
to encourage further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments
for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
Should your Committee
on Finance deliberate on this measure further, your Committees respectfully
request that it consider appropriating $400,000 from both the State Highway
Fund and the State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory Special Fund for
the establishment of the State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health, Human Services, & Homelessness and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2338, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2338, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health, Human Services, & Homelessness and Transportation,
____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair |
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____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair |
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