Bill Text: HI SB855 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 855 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Gambling; County Regulation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. [SB855 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB855-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 224

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 855

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 855 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTY GAMBLING ORDINANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the authority of counties to adopt by ordinance gambling laws that do not conflict with state laws.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Family Forum, Hawaii Catholic Conference, Hawaii Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that Hawaii and Utah are the only two states in the nation where all forms of gambling remain illegal. County governments in Hawaii can effectively prevent gambling in their counties by enacting and enforcing zoning, licensing, and consumer protection laws. This measure would allow counties to control, deter, or otherwise affect gambling by ordinance in accordance with state law.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 855 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair