STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 50-24
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2024
RE: H.B. No. 2443
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2024
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture & Food Systems, to which was referred H.B. No. 2443 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Repeal the sunset date of the authorization for primary caregivers to cultivate medical cannabis for qualifying patients; and
(2) Clarify that primary caregivers may continue to cultivate medical cannabis for qualifying patients subject to certain restrictions.
Your Committees find that allowing primary caregivers to grow medical cannabis for qualifying patients ensures that qualifying patients who are too ill to grow their own supply have access to medical cannabis apart from the medical cannabis dispensary system. This measure would permanently authorize primary caregivers to cultivate medical cannabis for qualifying patients.
Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture & Food Systems that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2443, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2443, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Health & Homelessness.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture & Food Systems,
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____________________________ CEDRIC ASUEGA GATES, Chair |
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____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair |
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