STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3468

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2039

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DECONTAMINATION OF ILLEGAL DRUG MANUFACTURING SITES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Health to develop procedures and guidelines for emergency and long-term decontamination and remediation of illegal methamphetamine manufacturing sites.

Your Committee finds that prompt, safe, and efficient decontamination of illegal methamphetamine manufacturing sites is necessary to enable individuals to safely reoccupy and reuse these premises.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring the Department of Health to identify any additional legislation necessary to give it the authority to ensure that contaminated sites are decontaminated and made safe for reoccupancy and reuse; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for 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. 2039, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair