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 S.B. No. 2490, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to revise and clarify labeling requirements for Hawaii-grown roasted or instant coffee.

The Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Hawaii Food Industry Association, and Hawaii Coffee Company supported this measure. The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation supported the intent of this bill. The Department of Agriculture offered comments.

Your Committee supports the intent of this bill to revise and clarify labeling requirements for Hawaii-grown roasted or instant coffee. However, your Committee has received testimony indicating that H.B. 2169, H.D. 2, a similar measure, contains preferable language that clarifies, simplifies, and strengthens the intent of these bills.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with the substance of H.B. 2169, H.D. 2. In addition, other technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made 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 S.B. No. 2490, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2490, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.