STAND. COM. REP. NO. 941

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 33

 

 

 

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 H.B. No. 33 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make permanent the prohibition against urinating or defecating in public within the boundaries of Downtown Honolulu.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Police Department, City and County of Honolulu and Downtown Neighborhood Board No. 13.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that in 2012, thirty-three citations were issued for urinating and defecating in public in Downtown Honolulu, an issue that continues to be a problem for the area.  This measure protects the right of those who live, work, and visit downtown Honolulu to a sanitary and safe area.

 

     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 H.B. No. 33, 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