STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2135

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2885
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2885 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SANITATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal certain regulatory
statutes of the Department of Health (DOH).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health.

     This measure would repeal statutes relating to:

     (1)  Location of slaughterhouses;

     (2)  Building permit or license issuance by the counties for
          a building or operation of a bakery, laundry, poi shop,
          abattoir, stable, fish, meat, or vegetable store or
          market, hotel, tenement, lodging house, or any place or
          building where noisome or noxious trades or
          manufactures are carried on;

     (3)  Requiring that yard and grounds of a dwelling be well
          drained and kept free from rubbish, and requiring a
          lodging house keeper or employer of laborers to keep in
          repair a closet or privy;


 
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     (4)  Requiring lodging houses and dwellings for laborers to
          allow free access to DOH agents; and

     (5)  Requiring dwellings to be free of filth so as not to be
          a nuisance or injurious to health.

     Your Committee finds these statutes to be archaic, obsolete,
and of no current or future necessity.  According to testimony of
the Department of Health, it has adequate authority under other
statutes to perform the functions of the repealed statutes.

     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. 2885 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 Health and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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