RELATING TO MEASUREMENT STANDARDS.

HB2491

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2491

THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2026

STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating
to measurement standards
.

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

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SECTION
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Section 486-105, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

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(a)
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Unless otherwise provided by law, the department, through the
measurement standards branch, shall inspect and test, to ascertain if they are
correct, all measurement standards and measuring devices kept, offered, or
exposed for sale, sold
,
or in use in the State.
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The department may, as often as it deems
necessary, inspect and test, to ascertain if they are correct, all measurement
standards and measuring devices used in:

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(1)
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Determining
the measurement of commodities or things sold, or offered or exposed for sale,
on the basis of measure;

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(2)
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Computing
the basic charge or payment, including taxes, for services rendered on the
basis of measure; and

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(3)
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Determining
measurement when a charge is made for such determination, including the payment
of any associated tax[
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;

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Provided
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provided
that in compliance with a rule of the board, tests may be made
on representative samples of the commodities, things, or devices, and the lots
of which samples are representative shall be held to be correct or incorrect
upon the basis of the results of the inspections and tests on the samples[
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And,
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;
provided
further

that with respect to single-service devices designed to be used only once and
to be then discarded or with respect to devices uniformly mass-produced, as by
means of a mold or die, and not susceptible of individual adjustment, the
inspection and testing requirements of this section will be satisfied when
inspections and tests are made on representative samples of the devices, and
the lots of which samples are representative shall be held to be correct or
incorrect upon the basis of the results of the inspections and tests of the
samples[
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; provided further that this section shall not apply to
commercial measuring devices utilized in taxicabs.
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SECTION
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Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken.
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New statutory
material is underscored.

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

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

DAB;
Measurement Standards Branch; Taxicabs; Exemption

Description:

Exempts
commercial measuring devices utilized in taxicabs from the requirement that the
Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity Measurement Standards Branch inspect
and test all measurement standards and measuring devices.

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