Bill Text: HI HB2703 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Food Sustainability; Department of Agriculture

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-6)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-26 - (H) Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-27-12 11:30AM in conference room 224. [HB2703 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2703-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  944-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2703

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2703, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Agriculture to develop a food sustainability standard to promote local food production to help diversify the local economy.

 

     The Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter, the Hawaii Food Policy Council, Olinda Farms, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii and three individuals opposed this measure.  The Department of Agriculture, the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, and two individuals commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2703, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2703, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair