STAND. COM. REP. NO.  808-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2253

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2253, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT  RELATING TO AMENDING OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 281, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, INTOXICATING LIQUOR, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, CORRECTING ERRORS, AND DELETING UNNECESSARY AND OBSOLETE PROVISIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enhance the administration of liquor laws by updating the statutes relating to licensing, adjudications, and operations of the liquor industry.

     The Departments of Liquor Control for the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, and the City and County of Honolulu Liquor Commission testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Providing that transient vessel licenses are valid only for liquor sales on board a vessel that is en route within the jurisdictional limits of the state and within any port of the state;

     (2)  Clarifying the procedural requirements for transfers of dispensers' and cabaret licenses;

     (3)  Providing that for transfers of licenses held by a partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, or a limited liability company, the county liquor commission may revoke or suspend the license until an unfit or improper partner or member is removed and replaced; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2253, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2253, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary,

____________________________ TOMMY WATERS, Chair

____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair