Bill Text: HI SB2420 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Deposit Beverage Container Program; Dietary Supplements

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-04 - (H) Referred to EEP, FIN, referral sheet 37 [SB2420 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2420-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2529

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2420

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2420, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to include energy and dietary supplement beverages, hard spirits, and wine containers in the deposit beverage container program.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from the Department of Environmental Management, County of Hawaii.  Comments in opposition to the measure were received from the Hawaii Bar Owners Association and the Wine Institute.  The Hawaii Liquor Wholesalers Association submitted comments.  Written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that purported energy and dietary supplemental beverages have the same intended use as other sports drinks, sodas, and juice beverages sold in containers that are subject to the deposit beverage container program.  Further, hard spirits and wine also have the same intended use for internal human consumption as other spirits and drinks that are included in the deposit beverage container program and should be included in the program.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to facilitate further discussion of this measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

 

     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. 2420, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2420, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair