STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3218

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2885

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2885, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADULT ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require businesses and individuals that sell adult entertainment products to:

(1) Display these products separately from other products sold on the premises; and

(2) Obscure these products from any direct line of vision from off the premises.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Family Forum, the Hawaii Catholic Conference, and eleven individuals.

Your Committee finds that requiring businesses and individuals that sell adult entertainment products to display these products separately and obscure them from being viewed by an individual located off their premises will protect the general public, especially minors, from being involuntarily exposed to these types of products.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2885, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair