Bill Text: HI HB1191 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medical Marijuana; Distribution System

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1191 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1191-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  182

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1191

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 1191 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to regulate the growth and availability of medical marijuana by:

 

(1)  Authorizing the development of registered secure growing facilities to provide a place for a limited amount of medical marijuana cultivation;

 

(2)  Authorizing patients and their primary caregivers who have written certification to use registered secure growing facilities, and their certified facilitators, to grow an uninterrupted allotment of marijuana for medical use;

 

(3)  Establishing a marijuana distribution stamp system to monitor the distribution of processed marijuana to qualifying patients or their primary caregivers;

 

(4)  Providing transparency to local law enforcement officers; and

 

(5)  Providing protection for qualifying patients and their medication.

 

     The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, Americans for Safe Access-Big Island Chapter, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.   The Department of Public Safety, Honolulu Police Department, Maui County Police Department, Hawaii Police Department, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Maui, and Save Our Society from Drugs opposed this measure.  Patients Without Time provided comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     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. 1191, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1191, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair