Bill Text: HI SB2824 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 2824 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Deposit Beverage Container Program; Dietary Supplements

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-13 - (H) The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB2824 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2824-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2546

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2824

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2824 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 make dietary supplement liquid containers subject to the deposit beverage container program.

The measure accomplishes this purpose by deleting dietary supplement liquids from the list of liquids excluded from the definition of "deposit beverage".

Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by Aloha Shell Service and eleven private citizens.

Your Committee finds that, presently, there are energy drinks on the market that also qualify as dietary supplements. Deleting the "dietary supplement" exemption will result in more consistent eligibility determinations regarding the deposit beverage container program. Your Committee also finds that including dietary supplement and energy beverage containers in the deposit beverage container program will provide increased revenue to the deposit beverage container deposit special fund.

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. 2824 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair