Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1154, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to exempt certain home-based honey production operations from the requirements governing the production of processed food.

The Department of Agriculture and Department of Health testified in support of this measure.

This measure allows the home-based agricultural production of honey that is not produced in a certified honey house or food processing establishment, or pursuant to a permit from the Department of Health, if the producer sells less than fifty gallons of honey per year, sells directly to consumers, and complies with labeling requirements that include a disclosure that the honey has been home-produced.

Your Committee has amended this measure:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1154, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1154, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.