STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1001-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2438

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2438, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIGARETTES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce accidental fires relating to cigarette smoking by allowing only reduced ignition propensity cigarettes to be sold in the state.

 

     The State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, Kauai Fire Department, Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, and Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Department of the Attorney General and Cigar Association of America, Inc., offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that for the purposes of the bill, a "cigarette" excludes all rolls for smoking that are wrapped in tobacco; and

 

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

 


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2438, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2438, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair