STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1051

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 747

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 747, H.D. 1, S.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 remove the definition of "convenience minimarts" from section 281-31, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Your Committee finds that the definition of "convenience minimarts" is surplus language and should be excluded from the relevant statute.  Your Committee notes that section 1-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes provides that "[t]he words of a law are generally understood in their most known and usual signification, without attending so much to the literal and strictly grammatical construction of the words as to their general or popular meaning."  Your Committee finds that the term "convenience minimart" is a generally understood term with a common popular meaning.  Therefore, your Committee further finds that inclusion of its definition in the statute is unnecessary.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 747, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 747, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair