STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2005

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2179

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2179 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the appointment and removal of the Liquor Administrator as prescribed by the charter of each county or by the Liquor Control Adjudication Board, in addition to the county Liquor Commission.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Council of Mayors.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that under Article VIII, section 2 of the Hawaii Constitution, the counties were granted the power to frame and adopt a charter for their own self-government within the limits and procedures provided by general law.  Consistent with that authority, this measure will enable the counties to determine appropriate appointment and removal procedures for county Liquor Administrators pursuant to each county's charter.

 

     Your Committee believes that the mayors should be vested with authority to remove the Liquor Administrators regardless of county charter provisions.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by additionally authorizing the county mayors to remove the Liquor Administrator, and making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2179, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2179, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

 

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair