Bill Text: HI SB288 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: School Vending Machines; Beverages; Public Schools

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB288 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB288-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 448

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 288

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 288 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ban the sale of soft drinks in public school vending machines.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency and four individuals.  Comments were submitted by one private organization.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that current Department of Education vending contracts stipulate only water and "healthy" juices are allowed, with "healthy" meaning at least fifty per cent real juice by volume.  Your Committee understands that vending machines may still dispense soft drinks in teachers' lounges.

 

     Your Committee has also considered Board of Education policy number 6810, Competitive Food Sales Policy, which states: "Beverage selections from school vending machines that are available to students shall contain only healthy beverages as deemed appropriate by the Department of Education."

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure to conform to the Board of Education policy.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 288, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 288, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Housing,

 

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair