STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1557-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2630

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 2630, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOISE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve community noise control by allowing a liquor commission in a county with a population of 700,000 or greater to establish a pilot program that exclusively employs a dBC sound-level measurement system in accordance with specified standards.

The Liquor Commission of the City and County of Honolulu and Chinatown Gateway Plaza Tenant Association supported this bill.

     After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Allowing a liquor commission in a county with a population of 700,000 or greater to establish a pilot program that employs both a dBA and a dBC -- not only a dBC -- sound-level measurement system; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2630, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2630, H.D. 2.

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

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair