Bill Text: HI HB154 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Two-year Industrial Hemp Remediation and Biofuel Crop Pilot Program; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-21 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [HB154 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB154-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  678

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 154

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 154, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL HEMP,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture to establish and fund a two-year industrial hemp remediation and biofuel crop pilot program to determine whether growing industrial hemp is an effective soil rejuvenation method and whether it can be used as a viable biofuel feedstock.

 

     Vote Hemp and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Honolulu Police Department testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Public Safety; Pacific Biodiesel Technologies; International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 142; and a concerned individual offered comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 154, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair