Bill Text: HI HB1968 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Special Fund; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-06 - (S) Act 233, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336). [HB1968 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1968-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2863

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1968

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1968, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIGARETTES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds out of the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program special fund for one full-time administrator, one full-time assistant, and other costs to implement the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, and County of Maui Department of Fire and Public Safety.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is intended to help implement the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program.  The purpose of the program is to reduce the number of fires caused by cigarettes.  Your Committee further finds that Act 189, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, established the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program special fund to administer the program, but no appropriation to the special fund was made.

 

     Your Committee notes that since September 30, 2009, approximately $444,000 has been collected and intended for the State Fire Council to implement, administer, and enforce the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program.  Your Committee concludes that amendments to this measure are necessary so that the State Fire Council is able to fully implement the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program, as required by section 132C-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting language to appropriate $400,000 out of the temporary deposits account in the trust fund of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the credit of the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program special fund;

 

     (2)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $400,000 to be appropriated out of the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program special fund;

 

     (3)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2012; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1968, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1968, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair