Report Title:

Liquor Tax; Cooler Beverage

Description:

Amends the definition of "cooler beverage" to mean any liquor containing less than 7% alcohol by volume to which non-beverage flavorings, juices, water (plain, carbonated, or sparkling), colorings, or preservatives are added.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1162

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO LIQUOR TAX.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 244D-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "cooler beverage" to read as follows:

""Cooler beverage" means [either (1) a wine cooler containing wine and more than fifteen per cent added natural or artificial blending material, such as fruit juices, flavors, flavorings, or adjuncts, water (plain, carbonated, or sparkling), colorings, or preservatives, and which contains less than seven per cent of alcohol by volume; or (2) a malt beverage cooler containing beer and added natural or artificial blending material such as fruit juices, flavors, flavorings, colorings, or preservatives, and which contains less than seven per cent of alcohol by volume.] any liquor containing less than seven per cent alcohol by volume to which non-beverage flavorings, juices, water (plain, carbonated, or sparkling), colorings, or preservatives are added."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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