Bill Text: HI SB1133 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
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
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1178
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: S.B. No. 1133
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 1133, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The Department of Health; Sierra Club, Hawai‘i Chapter; Zero Waste Kauai; and several individuals testified in support of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Removing the Deposit Beverage Container Program exemption for liquids one ounce or less that are designed and consumed only as a nutritional dietary supplements;
(2) Exempting containers of liquid deemed to be the sole item of a meal or a diet from inclusion in the Deposit Beverage Container Program; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1133, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1133, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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