STAND. COM. REP. NO.  808

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 896

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 896 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TOBACCO,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to regulate the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products by making permanent the retail tobacco permit law that was established in Act 131, Session Laws of Hawaii, 2005.

 

     This law is scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2009.

 

     The Department of Taxation, Department of the Attorney General, American Lung Association in Hawaii, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, and Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii supported this bill.  Retail Merchants of Hawaii opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to June 30, 2009.

 

     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. 896, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 896, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair