STAND. COM. REP. NO. 833

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1339

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1339, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIQUOR COMMISSIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize county liquor commissions to prescribe rules limiting, within constitutional bounds, the expression and conduct of patrons on licensed premises.  This measure also requires each liquor commission to include a definition of "dancing" within its rules.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Maui Dance Advocates, and four individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that controversy has arisen over the scope of permissible dancing in bars and nightclubs.  This measure addresses that issue by clarifying that county liquor commissions have the authority to prescribe rules limiting dancing on licensed premises.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1339, H.D. 1, 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, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair