STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1743

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     H.B. No. 1250

        H.D. 1

        S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1250, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MĀMAKI TEA,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish labeling requirements for mamaki tea that is grown in the State and to appropriate moneys to the Department of Agriculture to administer the requirements.   

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Farm Bureau, Hawaii Farmers Union United, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the labeling requirements established by this measure will help protect one of Hawaii's agriculturally important crops and prevent the deceptive or misleading marketing of mamaki tea.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of 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 H.B. No. 1250, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1250, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair