Bill Text: HI SB2819 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Electronic Cigarettes; E-cigarettes; Sale; Minor

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - (H) Referred to HLT, JUD, referral sheet 41 [SB2819 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2819-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2432

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2819

       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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2819 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALES OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to tax electronic cigarettes in the same manner as tobacco products and to prohibit the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Department of Taxation, Department of Health, Honolulu Police Department, and sixteen individuals.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Volcano Fine Electronic Cigarettes; Michael Jay Green, Esq.; and 1,048 individuals.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from Tax Foundation of Hawaii and eight individuals.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting language adding electronic cigarettes to the definition of "tobacco products", which would subject electronic cigarettes to the same taxation as tobacco products; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2819, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2819, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair