S.B. 11 Summary

• Prohibits all restaurants statewide from serving prepared food in polystyrene foam containers, effective December 31, 2020.

• Defines "restaurants" broadly to include coffee shops, cafeterias, food trucks, school cafeterias, catering facilities, and bar areas.

• Authorizes the Department of Health to adopt rules for enforcement and exemptions under chapter 91 of Hawaii Revised Statutes.

• Allows counties to enact ordinances more stringent than this statewide prohibition.

• Cites polystyrene foam as a major litter pollutant in Hawaii that leaches carcinogenic styrene into the environment and harms marine and avian wildlife.