Bill Text: HI SB652 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Tobacco Products; Electronic Cigarettes; Task Force

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-15 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Mizuno, Oshiro, Takai excused (3). [SB652 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB652-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  967

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 652

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 652, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to reduce the number of children and youth who smoke or begin smoking by:

 

(1)  Prohibiting the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors under the age of 18;

 

(2)  Defining "electronic cigarette", or "e-cigarette"; and

 

(3)  Establishing the Smoking Prevention Among Children and Youth Task Force to develop potential legislation that addresses concerns related to advertising and product placement promoting or encouraging the purchase or use of cigarettes or other tobacco products by children and youth and submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Legislature.

 

     The Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii and two individuals supported this measure.  Volcano Fine Electronic Cigarettes supported this measure with amendments.  The Department of Health submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee engaged in contemplative discussion and received meaningful input from testifiers on the various definitions contained in this measure and its companion measure H.B. No. 672, H.D. 2, as well as terms raised in committee discussion.  The discussion centered on definitions of terms including "electronic cigarettes", "e-cigarettes", "electronic smoking devices", "vapor products", and "alternative nicotine products", among others.  Your Committee recognizes the need to arrive at accurate and consistent definitions of relevant terms to support the intent and purpose of this measure.  As such, your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce and the Committee on Finance to further pursue this issue and develop consistent and accurate terms and definitions.

 

     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. 652, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 652, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair