Bill Text: HI SB779 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Cigarette; Reduced Circumference; Prohibitions; Fines

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB779 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB779-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 295

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 779

       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 Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 779 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIGARETTES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to deter smoking by young women by prohibiting the sale or distribution of cigarette "purse packs" in Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the American Lung Association, the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, Papa Ola Lokahi, and two individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that cigarette manufacturers continue to create new marketing strategies aimed at teenagers.  Your Committee further finds that the federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act prohibits states from imposing limitations on the advertising or promotion of cigarettes that are packaged and labeled in conformity with the Act.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the language referring to the prohibition of the sale of distribution of "purse packs" and replaced it with language prohibiting the sale or distribution of cigarettes having a reduced circumference smaller than that of a standard cigarette circumference of twenty-five millimeters.

 

     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. 779, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 779, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair