CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO.8
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 900
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
C.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 900, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSE APPLICATIONS,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this measure is to amend the liquor law to:
(1) Clarify the definition of "premises";
(2) Authorize a county the ability to create a "special district" for more stringent regulation of liquor license transfers;
(3) Clarify what items shall be included in the investigator's report and to whom a copy of that report shall be furnished; and
(4) Clarify procedures for protests concerning applications for liquor licenses.
Upon further consideration, your Committee on Conference amended the measure to:
(1) Further clarify the definition of "premises" with regards to a class 12 hotel license and a retail shopping complex;
(2) Require the liquor commission or agency to deny a liquor license within five hundred feet of a school or public playground if forty percent of the registered voters or owners and lessees within five hundred feet file protests;
(3) Change "special district" to "special liquor district" to differentiate from other special district designations;
(4) Clarify that for the purposes of defining "a majority of the owners and lessees of record of real estate and owners of record of shares in a cooperative apartment", each property counts only once, a protest submitted by the majority of the co-owners or the majority of the co-lessees of a property shall constitute a protest by all the owners or lessees of record of that property, and owners or lessees who own more than one property may count each property;
(5) Add a severability clause; and
(6) Make the Act effective upon approval.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 900, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 900, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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____________________________ KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Co-Chair |
____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair |
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____________________________ NATHAN SUZUKI, Co-Chair |
____________________________ CAL KAWAMOTO, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ RON MENOR, Co-Chair |