Bill Text: HI HB1221 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Intoxicating Liquor; Liquor Commission; Liquor Licensees Security Plans

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [HB1221 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1221-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 926

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1221

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1221, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that the consumption of liquor by a minor shall not be deemed to be a violation of section 281-78(b)(1), Hawaii Revised Statutes, if a licensee who serves alcohol in a large public facility receives the appropriate county liquor commission's approval of the licensee's security plans for preventing minors from consuming alcohol on the licensed premises, and the licensee implements that plan in good faith.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Better Brands, Paradise Beverages, Inc., Centerplate, Anheuser-Busch Sales of Hawaii, and one individual.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the City and County of Honolulu Liquor Commission.

 

     Your Committees believe that the liquor industry has made good efforts to prevent underage drinking; however, there will be those irresponsible consumers who choose to do otherwise. This type of behavior is not in the control of the industry, and your Committees find that the industry should not be penalized for the irresponsible behavior of these consumers.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Inserting a capacity of at least 50,000 people in the definition of "large public facility"; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1221, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1221, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair