Bill Text: HI HB1598 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Cacao

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1598 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1598-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  330

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1598

      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. 1598 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CACAO INDUSTRY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to support the local cacao industry by:

 

     (1)  Temporarily exempting from the general excise tax (GET) amounts received for the sale of cacao from a domestic producer or processed cacao from a domestic processor; and

 

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Agriculture (DOA) to collaborate with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Department of Land and Natural Resources to determine the best locations for a cacao processing facility.

 

     The Representative of the 27^th House District, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Padovani's Chocolates, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  DOA supported the intent of this measure.  The Attorney General opposed this bill.

 

     In light of concerns raised in the testimony on this matter, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting references to "domestic" producers or processors, making the GET exemption applicable to amounts received for the sale of cacao from a producer or processed cacao from a processor; 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. 1598, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1598, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair