STAND. COM. REP. NO. 560

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 480
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which
was referred S.B. No. 480 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEASUREMENT STANDARDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide additional
labeling requirements for macadamia nuts.

     The Department of Agriculture and the Mauna Loa Macadamia
Nut Corporation presented testimony in support of the measure.
The Hawaii Food Industry Association, though not present at the
hearing, submitted written testimony in support of the measure.

     Your Committee finds that the State has an interest in
distinguishing its locally-grown, high quality macadamia nuts
from macadamia nuts grown in other parts of the world.  This
measure provides the local macadamia nut industry with greater
flexibility in identifying its nuts as a product of Hawaii while
ensuring that only packages containing one hundred percent
locally-grown macadamia nuts may bear the descriptions "Hawaii-
Grown" or "Hawaiian".

     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 S.B. No. 480 and recommends that it pass Third
Reading.


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



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                                   BRIAN KANNO, Co-Chair



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                                   BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair

 
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