Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 509 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the calibration of secondary standards by nonstate laboratories.

Your Committee finds that state secondary standards must currently be verified against the state's primary standards. However, there is no state metrologist, and no certified state laboratory.

This bill proposes to permit the state secondary standards to be calibrated by other laboratories that are recognized or accredited by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to allow the program to continue.

The Department of Agriculture submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 509, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 509, H.D. 1.