STAND. COM. REP. NO. 294

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 66

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 66 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make tampering with for-profit entertainment games, such as for-profit coin- or dollar bill-operated entertainment machines and arcade games, an unfair and deceptive trade practice.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals. 

     Your Committee finds that no business should profit from unfair or deceptive trade practices and the public should be protected from these types of business practices.  The intent of this measure is to ensure that for-profit entertainment games, such as coin- or dollar bill-operated games and arcade games, are not tampered with to the detriment of consumers.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by significantly delaying the effective date to encourage further discussion on this issue.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 66, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 66, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair