STAND. COM. REP. NO. 305

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 936

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, 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 measure is to repeal the requirement for a sanitation certificate to be issued for county business licenses for the operation of a lodging or tenement house, group home, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, or boarding house.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health.

     Copies of written testimony are available for review on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that the City and County of Honolulu no longer requires business licenses for these facilities because of Act 35, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, so the sanitation certificate is unnecessary for Oahu.  Your Committee further finds that the counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii never required a sanitation certificate for these types of businesses.

     According to testimony submitted by the Department of Health, the Department will continue to conduct inspections for licensed care homes and other domiciliary facilities that it regulates under different laws.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health 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 Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair