Bill Text: HI HB668 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medical Marijuana Program; Transfer of Responsibilities ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-26 - Act 177, 6/25/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1280). [HB668 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB668-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  478

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 668

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 668 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to transfer the State's medical use of marijuana program from the Department of Public Safety to the Department of Health.

 

     The Department of Public Safety, the Community Alliance on Prisons, The Libertarian Party of Hawaii, Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, Drug Policy Action Group, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Americans for Safe Access, Big Island Chapter, and numerous individuals supported this measure.  The City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Hawaii Police Department, County of Maui Police Department, City and County of Honolulu Police Department, and an individual opposed this measure.  The Department of Health, Department of Human Resources Development, and several individuals commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Eliminating provisions regarding the registration and written certification requirements for medical marijuana;

 

(2)  Specifying that the transfer of agency jurisdiction and responsibilities of the medical use of marijuana program under this measure must occur no later than June 30, 2014;

 

(3)  Requiring the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Health to develop a plan regarding the agency jurisdiction and responsibility transfer, and to submit a report on the transfer, which includes the plan and an implementation timeline, to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2014; and

 

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Public Safety that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 668, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 668, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Public Safety,

 

 

____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair