Bill Text: HI HB1960 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Tobacco Product Self-Service Display; Prohibition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-03 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Awana excused (1). [HB1960 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1960-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  77-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1960

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1960 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prevent youth access to tobacco products by prohibiting retailers from displaying or storing tobacco products through self-service display or engaging in tobacco product retailing through self-service display.

 

     The Department of Health, Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, several members of REAL:  Hawaii Youth Movement Exposing the Tobacco Industry, and several individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.  Hawaii Smokers Alliance and one concerned individual submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee recognizes that chapter 245, Hawaii Revised Statutes, Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax Law, falls under the purview of the Department of Taxation.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Authorizing the Department of Taxation, rather than the Department of Health to adopt rules to carry out the purposes of the measure; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity 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. 1960, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1960, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair