STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2637

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3051
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
3051, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIQUOR EXPORT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify, for any who may have
doubted it, that Hawaii law allows local producers of wines,
spirits, and champagnes to ship their products out of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that at least one local winery believes
that it cannot ship its products out of state under current law.
Your Committee notes that it is beyond the Hawaii legislature's
powers to change federal law to permit mailing wine through the
U.S. Postal Service.  Similarly, the laws of other states may
prevent citizens of those states from receiving shipments of wine
that may be legally sent out of Hawaii under Hawaii law.
However, your Committee finds that Hawaii law should not prevent
local liquor manufacturers, including wineries, from shipping
their products out of state.  

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Volcano Winery.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by making a technical, non-substantive amendment for the
purposes of clarity and style.


 
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     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.
3051, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3051, S.D.
2.

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



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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