Bill Text: HI SB1337 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Agriculture; Livestock; Grant; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1337 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1337-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 651

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1337

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1337, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIVESTOCK,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to Hawaii Livestock Cooperative as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to enable the cooperative to stabilize operations at its slaughter facility.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Farm Bureau.  Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from Sharanya Krishna Prasad, US Programs Manager, World Society for the Protection of Animals; Cathy Goeggel, Animal Rights Hawaii; Laurelee Blanchard, Leilani Farm Sanctuary; and forty-seven concerned individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that the continued operations of Hawaii Livestock Cooperative will contribute to the State's food security and therefore is in the interest of the public's health, safety, and welfare.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1337, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1337, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair