Bill Text: HI HB1275 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Agriculture; 4 Ag Hawaii; Buy Local, It Matters; Grant-in-Aid
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1275 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1275-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 328
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2011
RE: H.B. No. 1275
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1275 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to support local agriculture by providing a grant to 4 Ag Hawaii to enhance its "Buy Local, It Matters" campaign.
Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Inc., supported this bill. The Department of Agriculture and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation supported the intent of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1275, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1275, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,
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____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair |
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