STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3438

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2339

H.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2339, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE DRUG AND ALCOHOL TOXICOLOGY TESTING LABORATORY SPECIAL FUND,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Make an emergency appropriation from the State Highway Fund to the Department of Health's State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory Special Fund for fiscal year 2021-2022; and

(2) Authorize the Department of Health to expend funds from the State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory Special Fund for the establishment of the state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Department of Transportation, and City and County of Honolulu Police Department.

Your Committees find that Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021 (Act 196), established the Toxicology Special Fund and authorized the Department of Health to utilize moneys from the Toxicology Special Fund to establish a testing laboratory. However, Act 196 did not appropriate money from the State Highway Fund to the Toxicology Special Fund, nor did it appropriate funds to the Department of Health to establish the testing laboratory. This measure addresses those matters by making an emergency appropriation.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2339, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Transportation,

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair

________________________________ JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair