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.  927-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1968

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, 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 funds 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, the Honolulu Fire Department, the Kauai Fire Department, and the County of Maui Department of Fire and Public Safety supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the amount of funds appropriated out of the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1968, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1968, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair