STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1927-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 3141

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3141, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

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 received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety.

Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to make permanent the temporary designation of new controlled substances by the Department of Public Safety. Your Committee further finds that the Department of Public Safety's temporary designation of the new controlled substances will be nullified if this Legislature does not make the designations permanent.

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

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

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair