STAND. COM. REP. NO.  733-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2484

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2484, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSE CLASSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make amendments to the liquor license classes by among other things:

     (1)  Removing the requirement that a class 14 brewpub licensee manufacture not more than thirty thousand barrels of malt beverages on the licensee's premises during the license year;

     (2)  Prohibiting brewpub licensees from selling intoxicating liquor purchases from a class 1 manufacturer licensee for consumption on the premises;

     (3)  Increasing the amount of wine that a class 16 winery licensee may manufacture on the licensee's premises during the license year to 20,000 barrels; and

     (4)  Establishing a new class 18 liquor license for small craft producer pubs.

Maui Brewing Company, Hawaiian Craft Brewers Guild, and Kauai Island Brewing testified in support of this measure.  The Liquor Commission of the City and County of Honolulu and Hawaii Food Industry Association commented on this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2484, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair