STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2563

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3042

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3042, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the State's liquor licensing laws to reflect the changing nature of alcoholic beverage production and sales.

Specifically, the measure:

(1)  Establishes a new class 18 liquor license for small craft producer pubs; and

(2)  Removes restrictions on the amount of malt beverages that a class 14 brewpub licensee may manufacture on its premises.

     Hawaiian Craft Brewers Guild and Maui Brewing Company submitted written comments in support of the measure.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will remove unnecessarily restrictive limitations on breweries and will open up the ability for small producers to diversify their product lines.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3042, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3042, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair