Bill Text: HI SB3260 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 3260

Bill Title: Relating To Agriculture.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-16 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB3260 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-SB3260-Amended.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	3260
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to agriculture.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 27-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§27-8 Contracts for food; percentage to be grown within the State. (a) The department of education, department of health, department of corrections and rehabilitation, department of defense, and University of Hawaii system shall each ensure that a certain percentage of the food purchased for public schools, youth campuses, public hospitals, public prisons, and any purchases made directly by the University of Hawaii for use in its academic programs, as applicable, 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 food purchased 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 food purchased 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 food purchased 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 food purchased 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 food purchased 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 food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost[.]; and

(7) By January 1, 2112, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute one hundred per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost."

(b) The department of education, department of health, department of corrections and rehabilitation, department of defense, and University of Hawaii system shall each submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session on progress made toward meeting the benchmarks described in subsection (a), including:

(1) The total cost of food purchased during the calendar year preceding that regular session, or in the case of the department of education, during the school year preceding that regular session;

(2) The percentage of the total cost of food purchased during the calendar year preceding that regular session, accounted for by the total cost of fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products purchased, or in the case of the department of education, during the school year preceding that regular session; and

(3) If the department or University of Hawaii system did not meet the relevant benchmark described in subsection (a), an explanation of why the department or University of Hawaii system did not meet that benchmark.

(1) Fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products that could substitute the food purchased by the department of education, department of health, department of corrections and rehabilitation, department of defense, and university of Hawaii system to meet the relevant benchmarks described in subsection (a); and

(2) New technologies that could allow for the cultivation of agricultural products, such as wheat, in the State.

[~~(c)~~] (d) As used in 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, that are one hundred per cent grown, raised, and harvested in Hawaii.

"Local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products" means a product for which at least fifty-one per cent of its 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."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2112.

Report Title:

DOA; Produce Contracts; Local Produce; Benchmarks

Description:

Requires that, by 1/1/2112, one hundred percent of the food purchased by certain state departments consist of fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products. Requires the Department of Agriculture to consider substitutes and new technology that would assist certain state departments to meet the benchmarks on purchasing fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)

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