THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Senator Josh Green, M.D., Chair
Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012

DATE:

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

TIME:

4:00 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB2361
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO PSEUDOEPHEDRINE.
Classifies pseudoephedrine as a schedule V drug that may be dispensed only with a prescription.

HTH, CPN

SB2474
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.
Reclassifies pseudoephedrine as a schedule V drug that may only be dispensed with a prescription; exempts cold products that contain other active ingredients, with certain conditions.

HTH, CPN

SB2228
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO PSEUDOEPHEDRINE.
Establishes a tracking system for the sale of products containing pseudoephedrine base.

HTH, CPN

SB2477
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.
Requires all cellular telephones, including refurbished and remanufactured cellular telephones, sold or leased by a retailer in the State to bear a label that warns consumers of the potential dangers of electromagnetic radiation emitted by cellular phones.

HTH, CPN

SB2476
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.
Adds definition for "aspartame".  Requires a caution statement to be placed on a product label for all food products containing aspartame that are offered for sale or distribution in the State.

HTH, CPN

SB3019
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.
Establishes a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, syrup, and powder with the revenues generated to be deposited into the community health centers special fund and the trauma system special fund.

HTH, WAM

SB2422
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
Imposes an excise tax on tobacco products, other than large cigars, that is equal to the greater of 70 percent of the wholesale price of, or $3.20 for, each article or item of tobacco products.  Takes effect 10/1/2012.

HTH, WAM

SB2569
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO SMOKING.
Prohibits smoking within a presumptively reasonable minimum distance of twenty feet from all public bus stops.

HTH, JDL

SB2426
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
Prohibits retailers from displaying or storing tobacco products through self-service display or engaging in tobacco product retailing through self-service display.

HTH, CPN

SB3022
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.
Increases the excise tax on cigarettes and small cigars.

HTH, WAM

SB1022
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO INVOLUNTARY HOSPITALIZATION.
Permits involuntary hospitalization in a psychiatric facility of a sexually violent predator.  Defines sexually violent predator.

HTH, JDL

No testimony will be accepted.

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

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