HB1699

Report Title:

Hawaii-Made Products, Definition

 

Description:

Amends definition of Hawaii-made product to allow it to apply to a product that is either manufactured, assembled, fabricated, or produced in the State or which has had at least 51% of its wholesale values added through in-state manufacturing, instead of requiring both.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1699
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO HAWAII-MADE PRODUCTS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 486-119, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§486-119[]] Hawaii-made products. No person shall keep, offer, display or expose for sale, or solicit for the sale of any item, product, souvenir, or any other merchandise which is labeled "made in Hawaii" or which by any other means misrepresents the origin of the item as being from any place within the State, which has not been manufactured, assembled, fabricated, or produced within the State [and] or which has not had at least fifty-one per cent of its wholesale value added by manufacture, assembly, fabrication, or production within the State."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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