Bill Text: HI SB2466 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-12 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SB2466 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2466-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2525

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2466

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2466, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WOMEN AND INFANT CHILDREN FARMERS' MARKET NUTRITION PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate state matching funds to develop and administer the Women and Infant Children Farmers' Market Nutrition Program.

 

     Your Committee received comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health.  Written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the United States Department of Agriculture's Women and Infant Children Farmers' Market Nutrition Program gives recipients of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children the opportunity to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at locally registered farmer's markets.  As such, it is an ideal way to address the nutritional concerns of pregnant women and young children in a cost-effective and efficient manner, at minimal cost to the State.  Such a federal-partnership program would also benefit state agriculture, particularly local farmers.

 

Your Committee understands that the Department of Health has requested introduction of a concurrent resolution that reflects the intent of this measure.  While your Committee supports the intent of this measure, your Committee acknowledges that a resolution may be a more appropriate vehicle to initiate this program.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date of this measure to July 1, 2099, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     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. 2466, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2466, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair