STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2053

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2141

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2141 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the consumption of liquor on public sidewalks and common areas within a public housing project.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

 

     Your Committee acknowledges that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority has policies in place prohibiting the public consumption of alcohol in common areas of public housing projects.  This measure serves to reinforce these existing policies.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2141 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 


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

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair