THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
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Senator Josh Green, M.D., Chair |
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Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Monday, February 13, 2012 |
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1:15 p.m. |
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Conference Room 229 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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RELATING TO PSEUDOEPHEDRINE. Classifies pseudoephedrine as a schedule V drug that may be dispensed only with a prescription.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Reclassifies pseudoephedrine as a schedule V drug that may only be dispensed with a prescription; exempts cold products that contain other active ingredients, with certain conditions.
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RELATING TO PSEUDOEPHEDRINE. Establishes a tracking system for the sale of products containing pseudoephedrine base.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires all cellular telephones, including refurbished and remanufactured cellular telephones, sold or leased by a retailer in the State to bear a label that warns consumers of the potential dangers of electromagnetic radiation emitted by cellular phones.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Adds definition for "aspartame". Requires a caution statement to be placed on a product label for all food products containing aspartame that are offered for sale or distribution in the State.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, syrup, and powder with the revenues generated to be deposited into the community health centers special fund and the trauma system special fund.
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RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Imposes an excise tax on tobacco products, other than large cigars, that is equal to the greater of 70 percent of the wholesale price of, or $3.20 for, each article or item of tobacco products. Takes effect 10/1/2012.
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RELATING TO SMOKING. Prohibits smoking within a presumptively reasonable minimum distance of twenty feet from all public bus stops.
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RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Prohibits retailers from displaying or storing tobacco products through self-service display or engaging in tobacco product retailing through self-service display.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Increases the excise tax on cigarettes and small cigars.
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RELATING TO INVOLUNTARY HOSPITALIZATION. Permits involuntary hospitalization in a psychiatric facility of a sexually violent predator. Defines sexually violent predator.
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Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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FOR AMENDED NOTICES: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
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_____________________________________ Senator Josh Green, M.D. Chair |
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