Bill Text: HI HB376 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Food, Product, and Merchandise Safety Recall Notices

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-25 - The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB376 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB376-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  22

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 376

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 376 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require club card issuers to inform their cardholders by email, text message, telephone, or regular mail in the event of a class I recall of any food, product, or merchandise sold by the club card issuer.

 

     The Department of Health, Center for Science in the Public Interest, and an individual supported this measure.  The Hawaii Food Industry Association and Retail Merchants of Hawaii opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of correcting a reference to federal law.

     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. 376, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 376, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair