SB 500 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO COFFEE LABELING.

SB 500 clarifies labeling and advertising rules for coffee grown and processed entirely within the state, requiring producers to accurately state regional origin. It specifically defines what qualifies as "State-Grown" coffee to prevent misleading claims. This directly affects coffee producers and sellers operating within the state who market their products as locally sourced. The bill establishes clear standards to ensure consumers receive accurate information about the coffee's origin.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 12, 2025

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SB500 → SB500_SD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted from a Senate bill (SB 500) into a Senate Draft version (SB 500 SD1) with minor text corrections and formatting adjustments. The substantive policy content regarding coffee labeling requirements remains unchanged, including definitions of geographic and regional origin and labeling requirements for Hawaii-grown coffee.

TECHNICAL

Text formatting and layout were adjusted to convert the document from a Senate bill format to a Senate Draft format, including header changes and removal of page markers.

Minor text corrections were made to fix typos in the original draft, such as changing 'Hawaii-prooooood' to 'Hawaii-processed' and 'Hawaii procoanod' to 'Hawaii-processed'.

Metadata and document control information was added to the top of the document, including author names, timestamps, and revision numbers.

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Committee

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

Reported from AEN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 302) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to CPN.

upper

Feb 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, DeCoite, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Richards.

upper

Feb 4, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on AEN has scheduled a public hearing on 02-07-25 1:01PM; Conference Room 224 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to AEN, CPN.

upper

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced.

upper

6 primary · 1 co-sponsor