THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 26, 2015

TIME:

9:05 am

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 1291, SD1

      (SSCR516)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

Prohibits an employer from disciplining, suspending, discharging, or discriminating against an employee who is a patient qualified to use medical marijuana solely because the employee tested positive for marijuana use.  Effective July 1, 2050.  (SD1)

 

HTH, JDL

SB 1291, SD1

      Proposed SD2

      (SSCR516)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

Prohibits an employer from disciplining, suspending, discharging, or discriminating against an employee who is a patient qualified to use medical marijuana solely because the employee tested positive for marijuana use.  Prohibits discrimination against medical marijuana patients and caregivers by schools, landlords, and courts with regard to medical care or parental rights.  Effective July 1, 2050.  (Proposed SD2)

 

Copies of the proposed SD 2 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website:  www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

 

HTH, JDL

SB 682, SD1

      (SSCR436)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

Prohibits discrimination against medical marijuana patients and caregivers by schools, landlords, employers, courts, and licensing boards, or with regard to medical care or parental rights.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (SD1)

 

HTH, JDL

SB 682, SD1

      Proposed SD2

      (SSCR436)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

Allows a qualifying patient, parent, primary caregiver, or an owner or employee of a medical marijuana production center or dispensary to transport medical marijuana in any public place.  Repeals the requirement that a certifying physician be the qualifying patient’s primary care physician.  Effective 7/1/2050 and contingent upon passage of S.B. No. 1302 (2015).  (Proposed SD2)

 

Copies of the proposed SD 2 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website:  www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

 

HTH, JDL

 

 

 

DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW, IF TIME PERMITS.

 

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Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

 

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Chair