Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2686 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to remove the Liquor Commission's power to take action against a person who purchases liquor without authority.

The Honolulu Police Department, Liquor Commission of the City and County of Honolulu, and the departments of Liquor Control of the counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii testified in support of this bill. The Retail Liquor Dealers Association of Hawaii, Liquor Dispensers of Hawaii opposed this measure and offered amendments.

Your Committee finds that the county liquor commissions have jurisdiction to take action against minors buying liquor and that this jurisdiction excludes the courts, police, and other enforcement bodies. Your Committee believes that instead of removing jurisdiction entirely from the liquor commissions, that jurisdiction should be shared with the county police departments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2686, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2686, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.