STAND. COM. REP. NO.  454

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 34

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 34 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATED TO SMOKING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect tenants and other individuals in condominiums and cooperative housing corporations from exposure to secondhand smoke by authorizing the condominiums and cooperative housing corporations to adopt rules prohibiting smoking, including electronic cigarettes, in all units, common elements, or limited common elements.    

The Department of Health, Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, and an individual supported this measure.  VOLCANO Fine Electronic Cigarettes, Hawaii Smokers Alliance, and several individuals opposed this measure.  The Hawaii Chapter of Communities Association Institute Legislative Action Committee and three individuals commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Replacing references to "electronic cigarette" with "electronic smoking device"; and

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.  

     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. 34, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 34, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair