CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 55-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2008

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2346

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir and Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 2346, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF A MINOR,"

 

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 bill is to expand the offenses of endangering the welfare of a minor in the first and second degree to include causing or permitting a minor to inject, ingest, inhale, etc., any controlled substance listed in schedules I through IV not prescribed by a physician and excluding the medical use of marijuana.


     Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Exempting from the second degree offense nursing mothers who may cause the ingestion or introduction of detectable amounts of any controlled substance listed in schedules I through IV to their minor children through breastfeeding; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2008.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2346, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2346, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Co-Chair

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair

 

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TOMMY WATERS, Co-Chair