Bill Text: HI HB896 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Retail Tobacco Permit; Repeal Sunset

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB896 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB896-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 961

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 896

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 896, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TOBACCO,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to continue the requirement that businesses engaged in the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products at the retail level acquire a retail tobacco permit from the Department of Taxation by removing the sunset provision in Act 131, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Taxation, the Attorney General, the Hawaii Food Industry Association, the American Cancer Society, the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, the American Lung Association, and the American Heart Association

 

     Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will continue the Retail Tobacco Permit Program that facilitates the collection of cigarette taxes by making it clear that no retailer or cigarette vending machine operator shall purchase any pack of cigarettes without the appropriate tax stamp affixed to the bottom of each pack of cigarettes.  For fiscal year 2007-2008, the Department of Taxation reported cigarette tax revenue of $101,560,051.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 896, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair