STAND. COM. REP. NO.1398
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 900
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 900, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSE APPLICATIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to establish additional requirements and procedures for the investigation, processing, and approval or denial of liquor license applications.
Waikiki Citizen's Patrol and numerous individuals submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Departments of Liquor Control of the Counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui, and Ala Moana/Kakaako Neighborhood Board No. 11 submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Allowing counties to more stringently regulate certain transfers in a "special district" created by a county for purposes of restoration, preservation, redevelopment, or rejuvenation in which development is guided to protect and enhance the physical and visual aspects of the area;
(2) Deleting the requirement that the Liquor Commission deny issuance of a liquor license to an establishment if 40 percent of the voters or owners within five hundred feet of the establishment file a written protest; and
(3) Deleting the definition of "a majority of owners and lessees of record of real estate and owners of record of shares in a cooperative apartment."
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 S.B. No. 900, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 900, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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