Bill Text: HI SB531 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Warning Signs; Alcohol Consumption; Liquor Licenses

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-02-20 - Referred to HLT, CPC, referral sheet 27 [SB531 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB531-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 531

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 531 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WARNING SIGNS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require businesses licensed under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to post signs warning of the risks of birth defects for women drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Health Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition, March of Dimes Hawaii Chapter, and the Malama Family Recovery Center.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that the use of alcohol by women during pregnancy can cause birth defects and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, including physical, mental, behavioral, and learning disabilities.  Your Committees further find that warnings regarding these risks should be posted in all premises licensed to sell liquor under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 531 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair