STAND. COM. REP. NO. 913

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1414

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1414, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO METAL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make permanent the prohibition against stealing beer kegs and the documentation requirements for scrap metal dealers contained in Act 53, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaiian Electric Company, and Anheuser Busch Companies.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Current law establishing a misdemeanor offense for the theft of beer kegs and imposing certain record-keeping requirements on scrap metal dealers includes a provision to repeal the Act creating the law on July 1, 2009.  Your Committee finds that the prohibitions and record-keeping requirements contained in the current law have proven effective at deterring theft of beer kegs and merit permanence.   

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1414, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair