Bill Text: HI HB2463 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Land Liability

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-09 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Belatti, C. Lee, M. Lee, Souki excused (4). [HB2463 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2463-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  242-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2463

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2463 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND LIABILITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make permanent the limitations on liability for public entities based on the duty to warn of dangers on improved public land.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Department of the Attorney General, and the City and County of Honolulu submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Association for Justice submitted testimony in opposition of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2020, for the purposes of facilitating further discussion; and

 

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2463, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2463, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair