Bill Text: HI HB749 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Agriculture; Hawaii Agriculture Workforce Advisory Board

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-18 - Act 099, 6/14/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1199). [HB749 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB749-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  439

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 749

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 749 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote agricultural self-sufficiency in Hawaii by:

 

(1)  Establishing the Hawaii Agriculture Workforce Advisory Board; and

 

(2)  Appropriating funds to support the Hawaii Agriculture Workforce Advisory Board.

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Hawai�i at Mānoa, Hawaii Organic Farming Association, and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The Department of Agriculture and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation supported the intent of this measure.  The Kohala Center and a concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Increasing the number of members of the Hawaii Agriculture Workforce Advisory Board from six to eight to include:

 

(A)  A representative from the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation; and

 

(B)  A representative from the farming community;

 

(2)  Naming the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations as Chairperson of the advisory board; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 749, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 749, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Agriculture,

 

 

____________________________ JESSICA WOOLEY, Chair		____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair