STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3921

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2339

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, 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,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide emergency funding for the state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory.

More specifically, the measure:

(1) Makes 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) Authorizes the Department of Health to expend funds from the state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory special fund to establish the state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health and Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that the measure addresses an omission in Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, which, among other things, established the state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory special fund to support a state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory and specified that moneys in the state highway fund may be expended for the cost of establishing a state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory. However, Act 196 did not appropriate moneys from the state highway fund to be deposited into the state drug and alcohol testing laboratory special fund or appropriate state drug and alcohol testing laboratory special fund moneys to establish the state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2339, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2339, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair