HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	204
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 486, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§486-    Food labeling; seafood. (a) No person shall keep, offer, display, expose for sale, or solicit for the sale of any seafood without a label stating the location where the seafood was landed.

(b) As used in this section:

"Farm raised fish" has the same meaning as in title 7 Code of Federal Regulations section 60.106.

"Seafood" includes farm raised fish and wild fish and shellfish.

"Wild fish and shellfish" has the same meaning as in title 7 Code of Federal Regulations section 60.133."

SECTION 2. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Food Labeling; Seafood; Fish and Shellfish

Description:

Prohibits the sale of farm raised fish and wild fish and shellfish without a label stating where the seafood was landed.

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