STAND. COM. REP. NO.  54-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2017

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2017 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide counties with the authority to either appoint or remove county liquor administrators:

 

     (1)  Through the liquor commission or liquor control adjudication board; or

 

     (2)  As prescribed in the charter of each county.

 

     This bill also places the ancillary powers of the liquor administrator under the proper section of statutes.

 

     The Hawaii Council of Mayors testified in support of this bill.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2017 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 Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

 

 

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair