STAND. COM. REP. NO. 243

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 703
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 703 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to exempt standard bars and
bars with dancing from the notice provisions of section 281-57,
Hawaii Revised Statutes, upon the transfer of a dispenser liquor
license.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Hawaii Restaurant Association.

     Your Committee finds that under current law, when standard
bars and bars with dancing facilities that are liquor dispenser
licensees transfer their license to a transferee, the transferee
is required to send out public notice of a hearing on the
transfer.  Pursuant to section 281-57, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
public notice must be sent by mail to owners and lessees of real
property within five hundred feet of the premises, the registered
voters and small businesses residing within one hundred feet of
the premises, and each condominium project and cooperative
apartment within five hundred feet of the premises.  The
transferee, therefore, incurs substantial costs in providing the
required public notices.  

     Your Committee further finds that since these license
transfers are usually generally accepted by the communities,

 
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exempting them from the notice provisions seems reasonable.
However, this measure would still require hostess bars, bars with
persons that entertain unclothed, and class 11 cabarets to
provide the required public notice of hearings.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 703, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 703, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

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



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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