Bill Text: HI HR58 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Encouraging Government Agencies to Plant Food Bearing Trees on Lands Owned or Controlled by the State or a County

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-09 - (H) Referred to AGR/WLO, FIN, referral sheet 42 [HR58 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HR58-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	58
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

Encouraging government agencies to plant food bearing trees on lands owned or controlled by the state or a county.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the State is over-reliant on outside sources for food, importing eighty-five percent of the food in Hawaii at a cost of approximately $3,000,000,000 each year; and

 

     WHEREAS, food self-sufficiency is one of the foundations of a sustainable community; and

 

     WHEREAS, it is in the public interest to pursue the common good whereby all families and individuals in Hawaii have improved access to food, which helps families achieve self-sufficiency and financial security while reducing the number of Hawaii residents living in poverty; and

 

     WHEREAS, a disaster thousands of miles away can adversely affect Hawaii days later, thus making it essential for the State to find ways to increase the amount of locally grown food available for public consumption; and

 

     WHEREAS, a growing population often results in housing and agriculture competing for the same land resources; and

 

     WHEREAS, the loss of prime farmland threatens Hawaii's ability to grow its own food; and

 

     WHEREAS, it is imperative to ensure Hawaii's food security for future generations by permitting food bearing trees to be planted in public places; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2012, that government agencies are encouraged to plant food bearing trees on lands owned or controlled by the State or a county; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that government agencies are requested to examine liability implications for any injury to any person arising from the person's harvesting from food bearing trees planted on lands owned or controlled by the State or a county, unless the injury results from gross negligence on the part of the State or a county; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, Mayor of each county in the State, and Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Encouraging Government Agencies to Plant Food Bearing Trees on Lands Owned or Controlled by the State or a County