STAND. COM. REP. NO. 333-14
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2014
RE: H.B. No. 1854
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1854 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NUISANCES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that the Department of Health shall only invoke its authority to abate, destroy, remove, or prevent the nuisance if the person whose personal property is the cause of the nuisance:
(A) Has been subject to administrative fines totaling $10,000 or more for the nuisance in a ten-year period; and
(B) Has not substantially remediated the nuisance within six months of the most recent administrative fine issued by the State or county;
(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1854, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1854, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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