STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 611

      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 Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 611 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TANNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect the health and safety of minors by making it unlawful for a tanning facility to allow individuals under the age of eighteen to use tanning equipment that tans the skin with electromagnetic radiation.

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network supported this bill.  The Department of Health provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting $250 as the maximum fine amount for a first violation and $500 as the maximum fine amount for a subsequent violation; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 611, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 611, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair