STAND. COM. REP. NO. 902

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 747

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 747, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIQUOR LIABILITY INSURANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to eliminate the requirement that retailers maintain at all times liquor liability insurance coverage, and to repeal the definition of "convenience minimarts."

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Association for Justice.

     Your Committee finds that the definition of "convenience minimarts" is surplus and can be defined by common usage and meanings.  Your Committee has confirmed that the deletion of language requiring retailers to maintain at all times liquor liability insurance coverage was an error that was not intended in this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by restoring the requirement that retailers maintain at all times liquor liability insurance coverage.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 747, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 747, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair