STAND. COM. REP. NO.  729-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 42

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 42 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect public health and safety by making permanent the prohibition against public urination and defecation within the boundaries of downtown Honolulu.

 

     The Downtown Neighborhood Board No. 13, The Slippah Foundation, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.  The Office of the Public Defender testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     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 H.B. No. 42 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair