Bill Text: HI SB1344 | 2021 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Food Sustainability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-03-24 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Quinlan excused (1). [SB1344 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-SB1344-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO FOOD SUSTAINABILITY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. (a) Pursuant to section 226-55, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the department of agriculture, in coordination with the office of planning, shall prepare and periodically update the state agriculture functional plan to include other agricultural economic updates, including updates on seafood sustainability, that expand the State's priority on food by including wild seafood as a viable food source.
(b) As part of the updated state agriculture functional plan, which shall include seafood sustainability, among other agricultural economic updates, the department of agriculture and the office of planning may:
(1) Establish objectives, policies, and actions related to seafood sustainability;
(2) Research the agricultural and economic impact that wild seafood has on food self-sufficiency in the State, including its influence on:
(A) Non-commercial consumption, such as community sharing and fisher household consumption; and
(B) Exports;
(3) Collect data on the wholesale and retail sales of wild seafood in the State;
(4) Classify and regulate wild seafood as a food commodity in the State; and
(5) Incorporate seafood sustainability into the state agriculture functional plan related to increased food security and food self-sufficiency.
(c) The governor shall submit the state agriculture functional plan pursuant to section 226-56, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2023.
(d) For the purposes of this section, "wild seafood"
means naturally born or
hatchery-raised fish and shellfish harvested in the wild through commercial, recreational,
or subsistence fishing but excludes net-pen aquacultural or other farm-raised
fish.
SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
DOA; Seafood Sustainability; State Agriculture Functional Plan
Description:
Requires the department of agriculture, in coordination with the office of planning, to prepare and periodically update the state agriculture functional plan to include other agricultural economic updates, including seafood sustainability, that expand the State's priority on food by including wild seafood as a viable food source. (HD1)
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