Bill Text: HI HB198 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; School Meals Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB198 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB198-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  878

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 198

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 198, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to increase schools' opportunities to include fresh produce in the school meals program by authorizing schools to grow food in school gardens for consumption in the school meals program as long as the food products are inspected and certified as safe by the Department of Agriculture.

 

     A concerned individual supported this bill.  The Department of Education provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.

 

     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. 198, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 198, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair