Bill Text: HI SB681 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Food Security Task Force; Appropriation ($)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to PBS/AGR, HED, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB681 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB681-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 236
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 681
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committees on Agriculture and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 681 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD SECURITY,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a temporary food security task force in the Department of Agriculture to develop an emergency food plan that addresses certain food security issues.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Organic Farming Association, Hui O Malama Aina, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, and five individuals. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from nine individuals. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Agriculture and one individual.
Your Committees find that the State must be prepared for a catastrophic event that could prevent cargo ships or aircrafts from reaching the State. For the health and safety of its citizens, the task force is necessary to identify an emergency food plan to feed the State should the State become isolated from the rest of the world.
After discussion, your Committees concluded that the Executive Director of the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii would be better suited to act as Chairperson of the task force.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Placing the task force in the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii for administrative purposes;
(2) Naming the Executive Director of the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii, or the Executive Director's designee, as Chairperson of the task force;
(3) Retaining the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture as a member, rather than the Chairperson, of the task force; and
(4) Adding the Hawaii Organic Farming Association; Hawaii Longline Association; Taro Security and Purity Task Force; Hawaii Aquaculture and Aquaponics Association; and Hawaii Crop Improvement Association as invited members of the task force.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 681, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 681, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,
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____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair |
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____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair |
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