Bill Text: HI HB216 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Bill 216 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Food Labeling; Genetically Engineered Material

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB216 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB216-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	216
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to Food labeling.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 328, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§328- Genetically engineered material; labeling requirement. (a) Beginning January 1, 2012, no food or raw agricultural commodity shall be sold in the State if it contains a genetically engineered material, or was produced with a genetically engineered material, unless it bears a label that provides the following disclosure notice in bold-face print and not less than ten-point type:

"THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS A GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MATERIAL, OR WAS PRODUCED WITH A GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MATERIAL."

(b) A food shall be considered to have been produced with a genetically engineered material if:

(1) The organism from which the food is derived has been injected or otherwise treated with a genetically engineered material (except that the use of manure as a fertilizer for raw agricultural commodities may not be construed to mean that those commodities are produced with a genetically engineered material);

(2) The animal from which the food is derived has been fed genetically engineered material; or

(3) The food contains an ingredient that is a food to which paragraph (1) or (2) applies.

"Genetically engineered material" means material derived from any part of a genetically engineered organism, without regard to whether the altered molecular or cellular characteristics of the organism are detectable in the material.

"Genetically engineered organism" means:

(1) An organism that has been altered at the molecular or cellular level by means that are not possible under natural conditions or processes (including recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid techniques, cell fusion, microencapsulation, macroencapsulation, gene deletion and doubling, introducing a foreign gene, and changing the positions of genes), other than a means consisting exclusively of breeding, conjugation, fermentation, hybridization, in vitro fertilization, tissue culture, or mutagenesis; or

(2) An organism made through sexual or asexual reproduction, or both, involving an organism described in paragraph (1), if possessing any of the altered molecular or cellular characteristics of the organism so described.

(d) This section shall not apply to food that is:

(1) Served in restaurants or other establishments in which food is served for immediate human consumption;

(2) Processed and prepared primarily in a retail establishment and is ready for human consumption, of the type described in paragraph (1), and is offered for sale to consumers but not for immediate human consumption in the establishment and is not offered for sale outside the establishment; or

(3) A medical food as defined in section 346-67.

(e) A violation of any provision of this section, or any rule adopted pursuant to this chapter, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 for each violation.

(f) The director of health shall adopt rules, pursuant to chapter 91, necessary for the purposes of this section, including rules for the testing of foods to determine the presence and content of genetically engineered material."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Food Labeling; Genetically Engineered Material

Description:

Beginning 1/1/12, requires foods sold in the State that contain genetically engineered material to be labeled with a disclosure notice.

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