Bill Text: HI HB817 | 2021 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Agriculture.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-07-07 - Act 176, on 07/02/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1304). [HB817 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-HB817-Amended.html
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that supporting local businesses
and encouraging the production and use of local agricultural products is a matter
of statewide concern. The purpose of this
Act is to require state departments to ensure that a certain percentage of produce
that is purchased is locally‑grown to ensure the continued growth of local
produce, support local farmers and ranchers, and guarantee that revenue derived
from the produce of contracts for locally-grown produce remains in the State.
SECTION 2. Chapter 27, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§27- Contracts
for produce; percentage to be grown within the State. (a)
Each
principal department of the State, as established in section 26-4, that purchases
produce shall ensure that a certain percentage of the produce purchased by that
department is fresh local agricultural products and local value-added,
processed, agricultural, or food products as follows:
(1) By January 1, 2025,
fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural,
or food products shall constitute a minimum of ten per cent of the total produce
purchased by the department during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent
of total food cost;
(2) By January 1, 2030, fresh local agricultural
products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall
constitute a minimum of eighteen per cent of the total produce purchased
by the department during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total
food cost;
(3) By January 1, 2035,
fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural,
or food products shall constitute a minimum of twenty-six per cent of the total
produce purchased by the department during each calendar year, as measured by the
per cent of total food cost;
(4) By January 1, 2040,
fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural,
or food products shall constitute a minimum of thirty-four per cent of the total
produce purchased by the department during each calendar year, as measured by the
per cent of total food cost;
(5) By January 1, 2045,
fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural,
or food products shall constitute a minimum of forty-two per cent of the total produce
purchased by the department during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent
of total food cost; and
(6) By January 1, 2050,
fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural,
or food products shall constitute a minimum of fifty per cent of the total produce
purchased by the department during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent
of total food cost.
(b) Each principal department of the State shall submit
a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of
each regular session on that department's
progress toward meeting the benchmarks described in
subsection (a), including:
(1) The amount of total
produce purchased by the department during the calendar year preceding that regular
session, as measured by the per cent of the total food cost;
(2) The amount of fresh
local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food
products purchased by the department during the calendar year preceding that regular
session, as measured by the per cent of the total food cost;
(3) The percentage of
fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural,
or food products purchased by the department during the year preceding that regular
session; and
(4) If the department
did not meet the relevant benchmark described in subsection (a), an explanation
of why the department did not meet that benchmark.
(c) For the purposes of this section:
"Fresh local agricultural products"
means fruits, vegetables, nuts, coffee, eggs, poultry, and poultry products, livestock,
and livestock products, milk and milk products, aquacultural, and maricultural products,
and horticultural products, one hundred per cent grown, raised, and harvested in
Hawaii.
"Local
value-added, processed,
agricultural, or food products" means at least fifty-one per cent of the product's
primary agricultural product is grown, raised, and harvested in Hawaii.
"Primary
agricultural product" means the major agricultural product in a processed or
value-added agricultural or food product.
"Produce" means fruits, vegetables, staple starches, nuts, coffee, eggs, poultry and poultry products, livestock and livestock products, milk and milk products, aquacultural and maricultural products, and horticultural products."
SECTION 3. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Procurement; Produce Contracts; Local Produce; Specifications
Description:
Requires and establishes benchmarks for each state department to ensure that a certain percentage of the produce purchased by that department consists of fresh local agricultural products or local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products. Requires a report to the legislature on each department's progress toward meeting these benchmarks. (SD2)
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