STAND. COM. REP. NO.1139-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2934

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2934, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Expand the definition of "special liquor district" to include areas designated by a county for historic preservation and residential protection; and

(2) Require a Liquor Commission investigator to include in every report for an application for a liquor license the possible adverse effects that the establishment may have on the surrounding community.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from the County of Hawaii's Department of Liquor Control, Ala Moana/Kakaako Neighborhood Board No. 11, Waikiki Citizen's Patrol (District 6, Sector 1 – West Waikiki/Hobron/Atkinson), and concerned individuals.

Your Committee has amended the bill by deleting the requirement that, for every liquor license application, a Liquor Commission investigator must report the possible adverse effects that the establishment may have on the surrounding community. Your Committee finds that a determination of what adverse effects are is tenuous and difficult to make. Under current law, an applicant for a new liquor license must notify property owners within 500 feet of the premises, and such owners may file with the Liquor Commission their protests, which may include their assessment of possible adverse conditions.

Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2934, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2934, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair