STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2363

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3138

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 3138 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MANUFACTURED HEMP PRODUCTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that the definition of "manufactured hemp products" in section 328G-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, includes hemp products specified in rules adopted by the Department of Health pursuant to section 328G-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and Hawaiian Choice/Rare Cannabinoid Company.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Agriculture.

Your Committee finds that the current definition of "manufactured hemp product" in section 328G-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, inadvertently restricts the Department of Health from adopting new forms of hemp products that are not already in one of the currently allowed ingestible forms such as "tablet, capsule, powder, softgel, gelcap, or liquid". This measure will relieve the Department of Health of this unintentional restriction and will allow the Department to evaluate and consider permitting other hemp product forms.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3138, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3138, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health and Human Services,

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JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA, Chair