Bill Text: HI HB1314 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Intoxicating Liquor; Beer Labeling; Hawaii Products

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-4)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 695). [HB1314 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1314-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1034

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1314

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1314, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIQUOR,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a new class of liquor license for distillery pubs and require beer whose labels convey the impression that the beer was produced in Hawaii to indicate otherwise if the beer was not produced in Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Island Distillers, Kauai Island Brewing Company, Big Island Brewhaus LLC, Maui Brewing Company, and one individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Kona Brewing Company and Capitol Consultants of Hawaii.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Liquor Wholesalers Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that there is a common practice where beer breweries of Hawaiian origin manufacture beer outside of the State, then label the beer without indicating its actual origin of manufacture.  Your Committee further finds that this practice causes confusion, specifically for consumers who value locally made products in order to support local businesses and to ensure quality and freshness.  This measure protects manufacturing and jobs in the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the establishment of a new class of liquor license for distillery pubs;

 

     (2)  Inserting the beer labeling requirements as a new section in part V of chapter 486, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to Measurement Standards, Uniform Packaging, and Labeling, rather than in chapter 148, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

     (3)  Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to request, rather than require, the use of certain language on beer labels to convey the true place of production in cases where the labels tend to create the false impression that the beer was produced in Hawaii or a region of Hawaii;

 

     (4)  Making optional the inclusion of the name of the bottler and the place where the beer was bottled or canned on beer labels bearing any Hawaiian brand name or adjective, Hawaiian word or statement, design, or device, including locations within Hawaii, for beer that is sold or distributed in the State; and

 

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1314, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1314, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair