STAND. COM. REP. NO.  781

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 587

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 587, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow each county to appoint and remove its liquor administrator by establishing that a liquor administrator shall be appointed and may be removed by the Liquor Commission unless otherwise prescribed by the charter of each county. 

 

     The Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu and a Councilmember of the Kauai County Council supported this bill.  A concerned individual opposed this measure. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.


 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 587, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 587, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair