STAND. COM. REP. NO. 541

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 Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, 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.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed 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.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs 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 Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair