STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3031

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3119

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3119 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTORY REVISION: AMENDING OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES OR THE SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII FOR THE PURPOSES OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, OR DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend or repeal various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes or the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, or deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Taxation and Legislative Reference Bureau.

Your Committee finds that this statutory revision measure is submitted by the Legislative Reference Bureau pursuant to Chapter 23G, Hawaii Revised Statutes. All of the statutory amendments proposed by this measure are intended to be technical in nature to correct errors, omissions, or obsolete laws.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a new bill section to make the following amendments to section 291E-61.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS):

(A) Relocating all definitions to appear at the end of the section and in alphabetical order to conform to the customary drafting convention and realphabetizing the subsequent subsections and updating internal cross references;

(B) Correcting a cross reference to "section 291E‑61(d)", HRS, in section 291E-61.5(d)(2)(D), HRS, to reflect the appropriate provision in section 291E-61.5, HRS, regarding the referral of probationers to a certified substance abuse counselor; and

(C) Making additional technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of consistency and style;

(2) Rephrasing as a proviso the amendments to the provision in section 261-16(a), HRS, requiring that applications for airport site approvals be made before the acquisition of the site or before the construction or establishment of the proposed airport;

(3) Repealing existing paragraph number designations and deleting corresponding technical amendments in the provision in section 281-111, HRS, authorizing court orders for the destruction, sale, or other disposition of condemned and forfeited liquor and related property;

(4) Deleting the amendments to section 291C-103(f)(2)(B), HRS, except for the conjunction added to the end of that provision by this measure; and

(5) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of consistency and style.

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 S.B. No. 3119, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3119, S.D. 1, 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