STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2621

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2141

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2141 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the consumption of alcohol in common areas and on public sidewalks within public housing projects.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and sixteen private citizens.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will promote public safety by enabling law enforcement to enter public housing projects to address problems related to people drinking alcohol in the common areas, as a violation of state law.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2141 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair