Bill Text: HI HB2083 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Milk; Labeling; Date of Pasteurization or Packaging

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-07-06 - (S) Vetoed on 07-06-10 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 656). [HB2083 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2083-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3039

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2083

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2083, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MILK LABELING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require milk beverages containing one hundred per cent by weight of milk or soy milk distributed or offered for sale in this State to be labeled with the date the contents were pasteurized or packaged for distribution or sale.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Teamsters Local 996.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Health and the Department of Agriculture.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that knowing the age of food, including milk, is an integral part of being an informed consumer and is consistent with our island fresh campaign to encourage consumers to support local farmers.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding a purpose section to clarify the intent of this measure;

 

     (2)  Removing references to soy milk;

 

     (3)  Placing the new section in chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, rather than chapter 486, Hawaii Revised Statutes, so that the Department of Health rather than the Department of Agriculture administers the labeling requirement;

 

     (4)  Applying the labeling requirement to milk pasteurized in Hawaii; and

 

     (5)  Changing the effective date of this measure to January 1, 2011.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2083, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2083, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair