STAND. COM. REP. NO.  69

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1559

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 1559 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to address the Food and Drug Administration's industry guidance on the use of color additives in sea salt products.

The Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism and Hawaii Kai Corporation provided comments for this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount from $150,000 to an unspecified amount;

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2038, to facilitate further discussion; and

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

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure further, your Committee on Economic Development and Business respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $150,000 for the purposes of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1559, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1559, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Health.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development & Business,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair