Bill Text: HI SB2604 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
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
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2306
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2604
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2604 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 delete the requirement that the Director of Health convene an advisory group to plan the development and implementation of prevention programs and make recommendations on expenditures. Instead, this measure transfers the responsibility of the advisory group to the Tobacco Prevention and Control Advisory Board.
This measure also amends the composition of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Advisory Board so that no more than one member of the board shall be an employee or contractor of the Department of Health.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure with amendments from the American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific, Inc. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health and the Tobacco Prevention and Control Advisory Board. Comments were received from the Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii. Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committee finds that as Hawaii has fallen from the state with the fourth lowest smoking rate in the nation to the fifth lowest, and because of the wide disparity in smoking rates between populations within Hawaii, stricter oversight of the tobacco control and prevention trust fund is warranted.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Making the advice of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Advisory Board to the Department of Health Prescriptive; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.
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 S.B. No. 2604, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2604, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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