Bill Text: HI SB1091 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Advertising; Mobile Billboards; Prohibition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1091 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1091-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 238

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1091

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 1091 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOBILE BILLBOARDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the placement of paid advertisements on vehicles and trailers.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and Na Leo Pohai.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the current law allows advertisers to place signs and advertisements on vehicles when these same signs and advertisements would be prohibited if they were posted anywhere else, such as on a building or along the roadside.  These vehicles function as billboards when they are driven or parked on the side of the road.  Your Committee notes that this measure does not apply to vehicles or trailers that display advertisements for the business for which the vehicle or trailer is actually used. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that "economic benefit" does not include a benefit derived by the vehicle owner from advertising its own business; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity to section one.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1091, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1091, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair