STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1454

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 936

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 936 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CERTIFICATES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal an obsolete statutory provision requiring the operator of a lodging or tenement house, group home, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, or boardinghouse to obtain a Department of Health (DOH) sanitation certificate.

     DOH testified in support of this bill.

     Previous state law provided that a business license to operate a lodging or tenement house, group home, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, or boardinghouse could not be obtained without a sanitation certificate issued by DOH.  However, Act 35, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, eliminated the business license requirement, rendering the sanitation certificate requirement obsolete.  Your Committee notes that DOH has stated it will continue inspections for licensed care homes and other domiciliary facilities it regulates under other laws.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 936 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair