STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1747

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   S.B. No. 997

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 997, 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 Hawaii's Uniform Controlled Substances Act to conform to the controlling federal law by adding several new substances that were scheduled by the federal government or emergency scheduled by the Department of Public Safety in the past year.

 

     The Department of Public Safety and several individuals supported this measure.

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 997, 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. 997, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair