Bill Text: HI SB2569 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Smoking; Public Transportation Stops and Stations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-17 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. [SB2569 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2569-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2335

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2569

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2569 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SMOKING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to prohibit smoking within a presumptively reasonable minimum distance of twenty feet from all public bus stops.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and the Coalition For A Tobacco-Free Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that it is in the best interest of the health of the State's residents to limit involuntary exposure to second-hand smoke.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing "public bus stops" to "public transportation stops and stations" to apply the protections of this measure to stops and stations for anticipated new forms of transportation, including a rail system, that may be established in the future.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2569, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2569, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair