STAND. COM. REP. NO. 664-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2064

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2064 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LICENSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to include the prevention of activities within an applicant's premises and adjacent areas that are potentially injurious to the health, safety, and welfare of the public and neighborhood as a factor for determining whether a controlled substances registration is in the public interest.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that the prevention of activities within the premises and adjacent areas of an applicant for controlled substances registration that are potentially injurious to the health, safety, and welfare of the public and neighborhood will help ensure the safety of a school's faculty, staff, students, and campuses that are in close proximity to these activities.

Your Committee notes that the Department of Law Enforcement provided testimony in support of this measure after the public hearing on this measure had concluded.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2064, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2064, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair