STAND. COM. REP. NO. 730

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1128

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1128 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO METAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the sunset date on the prohibition against stealing beer kegs. 

Current law establishing a misdemeanor offense for the theft of beer kegs and imposing certain record-keeping requirements on scrap metal dealers includes a provision to repeal the Act creating the law on July 1, 2009.  This measure repeals that expiration date to ensure that theft of a beer keg remains a misdemeanor offense and preserves the record-keeping requirement. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1128 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair