STAND. COM. REP. NO.  136-20

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2020

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1663

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1663 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to effectuate its title.

 

     H.B. No. 1663 was introduced as a short-form bill, which is sometimes referred to as a "vehicle" bill primarily used to introduce a bill containing only a general idea as to the purpose of the bill without specific details in the long form.

 

     Your Committee has amended the bill to provide the substantive contents of the bill in long form so that a public hearing may be properly held on its substantive contents.

 

     The purpose of this measure, as amended, is to protect the health of Hawaii's consumers by requiring that:

 

     (1)  All United States mainland milk shipped to and sold in Hawaii is single pasteurized only and complies with all handling, transportation, and distribution requirements of the federal Food Safety Modernization Act, including handling procedures, temperature verifications, and proper refrigerated transportation of all perishable foods; and

 

     (2)  Any processed milk or milk product must be entirely produced in the State in order to be labeled with any term or slogan that might imply that the milk or milk products are produced locally.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed H.D. 1.

 

     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 action to report out H.B. No. 1663, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to your Committee on Health, for the purpose of holding a public hearing thereon, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1663, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair