Bill Text: HI HB1968 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Special Fund; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-06 - (S) Act 233, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336). [HB1968 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1968-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  337-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1968

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1968 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIGARETTES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys out of the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund for one full-time administrator, one full-time assistant, and other costs to implement the reduced ignition propensity cigarette certification.

 

     The State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, Kauai Fire Department, Maui Fire Department, and an individual testified in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1968 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair