CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 40-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 3141

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

C.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 3141, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to update the Uniform Controlled Substances Act to make it consistent with the federal Controlled Substances Act.

Your Committee on Conference finds that existing law requires that if a substance is added, deleted, or rescheduled by an emergency scheduling action taken by the Department of Public Safety, or under federal law, then the Department is required to recommend that the Legislature make corresponding changes to state law. Your Committee on Conference further finds that if the Legislature does not make the Department of Public Safety's temporary designation of new controlled substances permanent, the Department's temporary designations will be nullified. This measure eliminates the differences between federal and state law and avoids nullification of controlled substances that were temporarily designated in 2021.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon its approval.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3141, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3141, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ LISA KITAGAWA Co-Chair	____________________________ LYNN DECOITE Chair
____________________________ SCOT Z. MATAYOSHI Co-Chair	____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM Co-Chair