STAND. COM. REP. NO.  545-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2083

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2083, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MILK LABELING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure consumer safety by requiring milk and soy milk beverages sold in Hawaii to be labeled with the date of pasteurization or the date of packaging.

     The Hawaii Teamsters and Allied Workers, Local 996 testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health, Hawaii Food Industry Association, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, and The Pepsi Bottling Group of Hawaii opposed this measure.  The Department of Agriculture provided comments.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2083, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary,

____________________________ JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair

____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair