Bill Text: HI HB903 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Intoxicating Liquor; Caffeine; Labeling

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB903 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB903-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  370

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 903

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 903 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the sale or distribution of caffeinated liquor labeled as a "pre-mixed drink".

 

     Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition submitted testimony in support of this bill.  The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (Council) supported the intent of this bill and suggested an amendment.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the language referring to "caffeinated liquor" to refer to "caffeinated beer beverage", as suggested by the Council, with the additional requirement that "caffeinated beer beverages" means only those beverages containing at least one-half of one percent caffeine by volume.

 

     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. 903, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 903, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair