Bill Text: HI SB2212 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medical Use of Marijuana; Probationers; Parolees

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-12 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JGO. [SB2212 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2212-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2248

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2212

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2212 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is:

 

     (1)  Allow a criminal defendant who is eligible to use medical marijuana to request the court to be allowed to use medical marijuana while on probation; and

 

     (2)  Allow a parolee who is eligible to use medical marijuana to request the Hawaii Paroling Authority to be allowed to use medical marijuana for the period of parole.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from four private entities and thirteen individuals.  Comments were received from one government entity.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that probationers and parolees should be extended the same right to use medical marijuana as the general population in accordance with law.  Medical marijuana users often suffer from severe debilitating conditions for which marijuana provides a modicum of pain relief.  Probationers and parolees are no different.  Your Committees believe that allowing probationers and parolees to use medical marijuana may help them to avoid more serious controlled substances.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by clarifying the definition of "primary caregiver" under the medical marijuana law to add that a convicted felon can qualify to be a caregiver only if the felon's term of probation or parole expired at least ten years immediately prior to the registration as a primary caregiver, and by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2212, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2212, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

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

 

____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair