Bill Text: HI SB1209 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vending from Highways; Airspace

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-18 - Act 115, 6/14/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1215). [SB1209 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1209-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 112

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1209

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1209 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Clarify the types of vending activities that are prohibited on state highways; and

 

     (2)  Authorize the Director of Transportation to issue a written permit authorizing an applicant to vend in the airspace above a highway.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

 

     Your Committee finds that the amendments proposed by this measure to section 264-101(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, go too far and could possibly interfere with the selling of articles and food along the highways, streets, and roads of the State, especially on the neighbor islands where it is typical for vendors to regularly sell food and crafts along streets and roads.

 

     Your Committee has been informed by the Department of Transportation that the amendments proposed by this measure to section 264-101(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, are intended to address the peculiar situation of the United States post office station situated under Lunalilo Freeway in Makiki.  Apparently federal law prohibits such vending in the airspace under the Lunalilo Freeway unless a state permit is issued.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting all amendments to section 264-101(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, leaving that subsection unamended.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1209, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1209, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and International Affairs,

 

		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair