STAND. COM. REP. NO. 357-14
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2014
RE: H.B. No. 2133
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2133 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to help prevent tobacco use among youth by prohibiting:
(1) From July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2018, the sale or furnishing of tobacco to a person born after June 30, 1997;
(2) After June 30, 2018, prohibiting the sale or furnishing of tobacco to a person under 21 years of age, rather than to a person under 18 years of age; and
(3) Any person under 21 years of age, rather than 18 years of age, from purchasing any tobacco product.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the definition of "electronic smoking devices" to describe that it is a device that can be used to "vaporize and deliver nicotine," rather than used to "simulate smoking";
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style, including accurately reflecting the language of the existing section 709-908, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which already includes electronic smoking devices in certain sale, furnishing, and purchase prohibition provisions.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2133, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2133, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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