STAND. COM. REP. NO. 543

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 783

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 783 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOISE ABATEMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make noise abatement laws more effective.

     Specifically, this measure makes an appropriation of an unspecified sum for each year of the 2007-2009 fiscal biennium to provide incentives to the counties to develop and enforce noise abatement ordinances.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one individual.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Honolulu Police Department.

     Your Committees find that noise abatement has become a critical issue, given our State's increasing population.  A concerted county effort is needed to provide the organization for enforcement of noise abatement county ordinances.  Such an effort was successful with the "Click It or Ticket" seat belt program.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 783 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

____________________________ RON MENOR, Chair