Bill Text: HI HB1534 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Genetically-Engineered Food; Labeling
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1534 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1534-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to genetically-engineered food.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 486, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part V to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§486- Genetically-engineered food products; labeling. (a) No genetically-engineered food product may be sold, offered for sale, or distributed in the State unless it is labeled as a genetically-engineered food product.
(b) The department of agriculture shall establish rules pursuant to chapter 91 to effectuate this section.
(c) As used in this section:
"Genetically-engineered" means alterations to a life form or its living progeny at the nucleic-acid level, using the techniques collectively referred to as recombinant DNA technology.
"Genetically-engineered food product" means a food product, raw or processed, intended for human consumption that has been genetically-engineered or that contains components that have been genetically-engineered.
"Recombinant DNA technology" means the transfer of genes, regulatory sequences, or nucleic acid between hosts by the use of vectors or laboratory manipulations and includes the insertion, excision, duplication, inactivation, or relocation of specific genes, regulatory sequences, or sections of nucleic acid. This term does not apply to a material or an organism developed exclusively through traditional methods of breeding, hybridization, or nondirected mutagenesis."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that the labeling requirements provided for in this Act shall take effect upon the adoption of rules pursuant to section 486- (b), Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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Report Title:
Genetically-Engineered Food; Labeling
Description:
Requires labeling of food products that are genetically-engineered.
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