Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2169 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Clarify and expand coffee labeling requirements;

(2) Clarify coffee labeling definitions and violations; and

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation and the Hawaii Coffee Company. The Department of Agriculture supported the intent of this bill but requested additional amendments.

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2169, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2169, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.