CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2021

RE: S.B. No. 345

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

C.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 345, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COSMETICS,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit a manufacturer from importing for profit, selling, or offering for sale any cosmetic that a manufacturer knew or reasonably should have known was developed or manufactured using animal testing performed, on or after January 1, 2022, in a cruel manner.

Your Committee on Conference finds that testing cosmetics on animals is cruel and increasingly unnecessary as there are now thousands of cosmetic ingredients whose effects have already been tested and compiled, especially when new alternatives to animal testing are readily available. These new testing methods are more efficient and humane and provide better predictors of adverse human reactions to new chemical compounds than animal testing. This measure aligns the State with other jurisdictions that have banned testing cosmetics on animals by striking a balance between a complete ban with limited exceptions to the animal testing prohibition.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 1, 2022.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 345, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 345, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ MARK J. HASHEM Co-Chair	____________________________ MIKE GABBARD Chair
____________________________ LISA KITAGAWA Co-Chair	____________________________ KARL RHOADS Co-Chair
	____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER Co-Chair