STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 247
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2021
RE: H.B. No. 102
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2021
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 102 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUNSCREENS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to, beginning January 1, 2023, ban the sale, offer of sale, or distribution in the State of any sunscreen that contains avobenzone or octocrylene, or both, without a prescription issued by a licensed healthcare provider to preserve marine ecosystems.
Your Committees
received testimony in support of this measure from the Department
of Land and Natural Resources; Young Progressives Demanding Action Hawai‘i Island; Hawaii
Fishing & Boating Association; Surfrider Foundation, Maui Chapter; Surfrider
Foundation, O‘ahu Chapter; The Kohala Center; Lani & Kai; Mama Kuleana Reef
Safe Sunscreen Company; Hawaii Reef and Ocean Coalition; Hawaii Coral Reef
Stakeholders; Haereticus Environmental Laboratory; Napili Bay and Beach
Foundation, Inc.; Chemists Without Borders; One Love Body Soul LLC; Suntegrity;
Zero Waste Hale; Stream2Sea; Inland Ocean Coalition; Safe Sunscreen Council; and
numerous individuals.
Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the
Hawaii
Food Industry Association, Public Access to SunScreens Coalition, Personal Care
Products Council, American Chemistry Council, Hawaii Skin Cancer Coalition, Consumer
Healthcare Products Association, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, and five
individuals.
Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department
of Health, American Academy of Dermatology Association, and Hawaii
Dermatological Society.
Your Committees find that despite the ban
on the sale and distribution of sunscreen containing oxybenzone and octinoxate
in the State beginning in 2021, many visitors to Hawaii may still be unaware of
the harmful impacts of other chemicals that have significant harmful impacts on
Hawaii's marine environment. This
measure ensures that other harmful chemicals are included in the sunscreen ban
to preserve the State's marine ecosystems, including coral reefs that protect
Hawaii's shoreline.
Your Committees have amended this measure
by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 102, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 102, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land,
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____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair |
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____________________________ NICOLE E. LOWEN, Chair |