STAND. COM. REP. NO.  44

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 33

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 33 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make permanent the prohibition against urinating or defecating in public within the boundaries of downtown Honolulu.

The Honolulu Police Department testified in support of this bill.  The Office of the Public Defender and the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii opposed the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 33 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair