Bill Text: HI SB2604 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 35 [SB2604 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2604-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2474

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2604

       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. 2604, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOBACCO SETTLEMENT SPECIAL FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to eliminate the requirement that the Director of Health convene an advisory group to strategically plan the development and implementation of prevention programs and make recommendations regarding the expenditure of moneys in the tobacco prevention and control trust fund.

 

     Specifically, this measure transfer responsibility of the advisory group to the Tobacco Prevention and Control Advisory Board, changes the composition of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Advisory Board, and makes the advice of the Board to the department prescriptive.

 

     The Department of Health submitted comments in opposition to this measure.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature’s website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure provides stricter oversight of the Tobacco Control and Prevention Trust Fund, which appears warranted.  A lack of clarity apparently stalled funding for tobacco prevention and control programs which resulted in the State's ranking as having the fourth lowest smoking rate in the nation falling to the fifth lowest smoking rate.

 

     Your Committee amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date of this measure to July 1, 2055, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes 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. 2604, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2604, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair