STAND. COM. REP. NO.  103

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 587

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 587 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to expand the scope of the counties' executive and administrative structure by authorizing each county to appoint and remove its liquor administrator pursuant to its county charter.  This measure also establishes certain powers and duties of the liquor administrator.

     The Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Council of Mayors, and a Kauai County Councilmember supported this measure.  The Department of Liquor Control of the County of Maui offered comments.

     Currently, the charters of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui counties contain provisions for the appointment and removal of a liquor administrator.  This measure will facilitate the adoption of comparable charter provisions for the City and County of Honolulu.
     Your Committee amended this bill by:

     (1)  Clarifying that a liquor administrator shall be                    appointed and may be removed by the liquor commission              unless it is otherwise stated in the county charter; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsustantive amendments for style,              clarity, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 587, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 587, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair