STAND. COM. REP. NO. 876

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1035
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
1035 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RETAIL LIQUOR SALES TO
     MINORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is
to allow persons under twenty-one years of age to participate in
authorized studies or enforcement of statutory provisions
relating to the sale of liquor to minors.

     Your Committee finds that alcohol is the most socially
accepted intoxicating substance and is one of the most abused as
it is readily available throughout the State at many retail
stores.  Your Committee further finds that in a Department of
Health Student Alcohol and Drug Use Survey, twenty-four percent
of sixth graders, thirty-eight percent of eighth graders, forty-
six percent of tenth graders, and fifty-nine percent of twelfth
graders can easily purchase alcohol from stores in Hawaii.  Your
Committee believes that education and enforcement are essential
to preventing youth from using intoxicating liquor.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Health, the Office of Youth Services, and the
Hawaii Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse and Controlled
Substances.


 
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     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill by clarifying that only persons aged eighteen to twenty may
participate in any controlled purchase enforcement activity or a
study authorized by the Department of Health.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1035, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1035, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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