STAND. COM. REP. NO. 946-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2443

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2443, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs 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 Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and five individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Care Wailua; 434 Custom Tattooing; Ganja War Veterans of Hawaiʻi; Oahu Cannabis Farm Alliance; and numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from Aloha Green Apothecary; Akamai Cannabis Consulting; Cannabis Society of Hawaiʻi; and one individual.

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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2443, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2443, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair