Bill Text: HI SB1133 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Deposit Beverage Container Program; Dietary Supplements

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-02 - Act 230, on 6/27/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1333). [SB1133 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1133-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 683

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1133

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1133, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to remove the exemption for liquid dietary supplements from the deposit beverage container program.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health and two concerned individuals.

 

Your Committee finds that the exemption from the deposit beverage container program for liquid dietary supplements relies upon a definition of "dietary supplement" provided by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  However, the FDA does not vigorously regulate the dietary supplement industry.  This causes unnecessary administrative difficulties that cost the Department of Health a disproportionate amount of time and resources and creates uncertainty regarding product determinations.  In addition, there is concern that liquid dietary supplements in amounts of one ounce or less may pose onerous burdens on the redemption process. 

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Retaining the exemption from the deposit beverage container program for liquid dietary supplements in amounts of not more than one ounce;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1133, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1133, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair