HB 496: HDOA; MĀMAKI TEA; LABELING REQUIREMENTS; POSITION; APPROPRIATION

Session Year: 2025-2026
House: House
Latest Version Date: 2025-04-25

Current Status:

Passed

(2025-06-27: Act 242, on 06/27/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1344).)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Final Decking

Enacted

Version:

Prohibits the use of certain words and misleading Hawaiian imagery, place names, and motifs on the label of a consumer package that contains or includes tea or dried leaves from the plant Pipturus albidus, unless 100 per cent of the tea or dried leaves were cultivated, harvested, and dried in the State. Appropriates funds for a Measurement Standards Inspector position. (CD1)

Discussed in Hearing