Bill Text: HI HB1853 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Education; Prohibit Sale of Ice Cream and Candy

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2010-04-09 - (H) Failed to Pass Final Reading with 20 Ayes; 21 Noes Representative(s) Aquino, Awana, Belatti, Berg, Cabanilla, Chang, Ching, Choy, Finnegan, Karamatsu, Keith-Agaran, Manahan, Marumoto, Nakashima, Pine, Souki, Takai, Thielen, Ward, Yamane, Yamashita; and 10 Excused Representative(s) Bertram, Carroll, Hanohano, Herkes, McKelvey, Mizuno, Nishimoto, M. Oshiro, Sagum, Tokioka. [HB1853 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1853-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2770

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1853

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1853 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to disallow the sale of ice cream and candy by public schools to conform to the State of Hawaii Wellness Guidelines.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency and two private organizations.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by two private organizations.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure encourages the health and well-being of Hawaii's children and attempts to correct the inconsistency between the sale of ice cream and candy in public schools and the intent of the State of Hawaii Wellness Guidelines.

 

     Your Committee learned through testimony that the problems intended to be addressed by this measure occur on school campuses and relate to the sale of ice cream and candy not only by public schools but also by other parties.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure as follows:

 

     (1)  By adding language to make it unlawful for a public school to permit the sale of certain merchandise, including ice cream and candy, on a school campus, without written permission from the Department of Education, regardless of whether the seller is a public school or not;

 

     (2)  By removing the language that requires the Department of Education to adopt rules for the purposes of section 302A‑1146, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the sale of merchandise by public schools; and

 

     (3)  By making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1853, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1853, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Housing,

 

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair