Bill Text: HI SB2650 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 2650 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Controlled Substances; Protected Places

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-18 - (S) Act 023, 4/17/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1123). [SB2650 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2650-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1507-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2012

RE: S.B. No. 2650

S.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2650, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROMOTION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend enhanced sentencing provisions for promoting a controlled substance in, on, or near schools, school vehicles, or public parks to public housing projects and complexes.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority of the Department of Human Services, the Department of Public Safety, the Honolulu Police Department, and an individual supported this measure. The Office of the Public Defender and the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii opposed this measure.

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. 2650, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair