STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1000

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 88

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 88, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN PUBLIC HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to better regulate the consumption of alcoholic beverages in public housing by:

     (1)  Prohibiting possessing or keeping any bottle, can, or other receptacle containing any intoxicating liquor that has been opened, has a broken seal, or the contents of which have been partially removed while on any sidewalk or common area within a public housing; and

     (2)  Adding state low income housing project to the definition of "public housing project" for the purposes of liquor control.

     The Hawaii Public Housing Authority testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030; 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 Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 88, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 88, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

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RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair