Bill Text: HI HB2562 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Deposit Beverage Container Program; Dietary Supplements
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-25 - (H) Referred to EEP/ERB, FIN, referral sheet 7 [HB2562 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2562-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to include energy and dietary supplement beverage containers in the deposit beverage container program.
SECTION 2. Section 342G-101, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "deposit beverage" to read as follows:
""Deposit beverage" means beer, ale, or other drink produced by fermenting malt, mixed spirits, mixed wine, tea and coffee drinks regardless of dairy-derived product content, soda, or noncarbonated water, and all nonalcoholic drinks in liquid form and intended for internal human consumption that is contained in a deposit beverage container.
The term "deposit beverage" excludes the following:
(1) A liquid [which] that is:
(A) A syrup;
(B) In a concentrated form; or
(C) Typically added as a minor flavoring ingredient in food or drink, such as extracts, cooking additives, sauces, or condiments;
(2) A liquid [which] that is a drug,
medical food, or infant formula as defined by the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. §301 et seq.);
[(3) A liquid which is designed and consumed
only as a dietary supplement and not as a beverage as defined in the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-417);
(4)] (3) Products frozen at the time of
sale to the consumer, or, in the case of institutional users such as hospitals
and nursing homes, at the time of sale to the users;
[(5)] (4) Products designed to be
consumed in a frozen state;
[(6)] (5) Instant drink powders;
[(7)] (6) Seafood, meat, or vegetable
broths, or soups, but not juices; and
[(8)] (7) Milk and all other
dairy-derived products, except tea and coffee drinks with trace amounts of
these products."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2013.
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BY REQUEST |
Report Title:
Deposit Beverage Container Program; Dietary Supplements
Description:
Removes the exemption for dietary supplements from the deposit beverage container program.
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