| HI | SB1590 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to assess the steps necessary for the State to supplement federal authority to perform meat inspections within the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to assess the steps necessary to transfer full aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of change in Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 768). |
| HI | HB2136 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish and implement a pesticide inspection program to increase compliance with the proper use of restricted use pesticides and ensure the continued prohibition on the use or application of pesticides cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 769). |
| HI | SB2560 | Engross
50% | Provides that each lease that the Department of Agriculture enters into, renews, or extends shall authorize DOA to enter the leased premises with prior notification to survey for, identify, investigate, control, or eradicate pests; work cooperatively...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 774). |
| HI | SB3237 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to designate certain species as pests, and periodically update taxa designated as pests, for control or eradication and develop and implement a control or eradication program for each designated pest but, if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3335 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis and Hemp Authority and Cannabis and Hemp Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning 1/1/2026, legalizes the personal adult use of canna...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2771 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the continued administration of the Hawaii Healthy Food Incentive Program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Declares that the general fund expenditu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2236 | Engross
50% | Reclassifies, repeals, or abolishes certain non-general funds of the Department of Agriculture, pursuant to the recommendations made by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 23-13. Transfers any unencumbered balance of any repealed or abolished fund to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1937 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the preparation of an environmental impact statement to drill non-potable water wells on individual parcels at Panaewa and Pahoa agricultural parks. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB2133 | Engross
50% | Establishes an invasive species grant pilot program to provide grants through DOA to individuals, businesses, and organizations for the eradication of invasive species on property located in Hawaii that is owned by the individual, business, or organi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2046 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, and counties to collaborate on feral chicken management projects. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3316 | Engross
50% | Requires quarterly rather than annual reporting of all use of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | SB2421 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the continued administration of the Hawaii Healthy Food Incentive Program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Declare...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2790 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to hire two FTE positions to collect, manipulate, and graph data and to build an agricultural data dashboard for public consumption and a one year study on agricultural markets for Hawaii farmers. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2813 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish industry standards for processing meat and conduct a survey on slaughterhouse operations. Establishes a tax credit for processing meat. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2675 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources, to facilitate the private sector's development of renewable energy projects that also support agricultural food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2961 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish an Agricultural Workforce Housing Working Group to address the shortage and challenges of agricultural workforce housing in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2617 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Aquaculture Advisory Committee within the Department of Agriculture. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3315 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to use consistent units of measurement in its summary to the public on the amounts of restricted use pesticides used. Establishes a one-half mile buffer zone for pesticides around schools and state and county pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2803 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study on the Kohala Ditch System. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2103 | Intro
25% | Expands the criminal offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false-labeling of Hawaii-grown roasted coffee. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3260 | Intro
25% | 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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2083 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture's Aquaculture Development Program to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for restorative aquaculture activities. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2412 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Aquaculture Advisory Committee within the Department of Agriculture. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2431 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Agricultural Emergency Loan Revolving Fund to be administered by the Department of Agriculture, to fund Class "D" loans. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2411 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to mitigate and control the spread of the two-lined spittlebug and to fund recovery efforts for areas affected by it. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2001 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture's Aquaculture Development Program to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for restorative aquaculture activities. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3027 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Office of the Governor, to update and supplement the 2020 strategic plan to increase Hawaii's food production and food security. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit a report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2618 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for an aquaculture park that promotes commercial aquaculture expansion. Requires a report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2559 | Intro
25% | Establishes a pest placard program. Requires the Department of Agriculture to inspect certain establishments that are at risk of spreading pests. Establishes correction and quarantine procedures. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is excee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2423 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2361 | Intro
25% | Establishes two permanent full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) grant specialist positions within the Department of Agriculture. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2414 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group. Requires a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes an unspecified number of positions within the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2794 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for a meat inspection program and for costs for meat inspection services, including one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) inspector program supervisor position and three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2155 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to: (1) identify and evaluate each parcel of certain state-owned lands; and (2) contract a third-party entity to compile a report evaluating the agricultural land use potential of each parcel of state-owned land...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2495 | Intro
25% | Requires the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture or their designee to annually notify all irrigation users by mail and conduct in-person visits on procedures to remove unused irrigation system water meters and stop acreage assessments. By an unsp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2638 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to contract a third-party entity to compile a report evaluating the agricultural land use potential of certain parcels of state-owned lands. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2424 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a program specialist position. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3324 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to support the Aquaculture Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at the Department of Agriculture Animal Industry Division Veterinary Laboratory Services Branch, in partnership with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agricult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3304 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Farm Succession Pilot Program under the Leeward Community College. Appropriates funds for the pilot program and for the Department of Agriculture's Farmer Apprentice Mentoring Program. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3358 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to indemnify Molokai ranchers whose herds were affected by the bovine tuberculosis outbreak and have not received indemnification from other sources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3323 | Intro
25% | Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture Aquaculture and Livestock Services Support Branch to host an agrifood and aquaculture summit in Kona in 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB2288 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to develop tax incentives, rebates, grants, and loan programs to incentivize and provide financing for agrivoltaic farms and solar energy systems on certain agricultural land. Requires a report to the legislatur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2338 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Office of the Governor, to update and supplement the 2020 strategic plan to increase Hawaii's food production and food security. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit a report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2646 | Intro
25% | Requires monthly rather than annual reporting of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information, site information, and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2753 | Intro
25% | Before the transfer of non-agricultural park lands, authorizes the Department of Agriculture to request information from the Department of Land and Natural Resources related to the establishment of necessary and reasonable easements upon the lands. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1999 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a market analysis study to identify the optimum mix of private sector, public sector, and philanthropic funding sources and mechanisms needed to support blue carbon ecosystem projects in the State and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | SB2595 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, to prepare and periodically update the State Agriculture Functional Plan to include updates on seafood sustainability and other agricultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2802 | Intro
25% | Declares that the general fund expenditure is exceeded. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture to increase the benefits of the Hawaii healthy food incentive program to a wider portion of the State's population and the provision of ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2799 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Local Agriculture Transportation Cost Reimbursement Incentive Program to be administered by the Department of Agriculture to reimburse eligible producers for a portion of the producer's costs to transport agricultural commodities. Decla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2791 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health to jointly convene a Hawaii Hemp Task Force to inform public policy and identify methods and actions to best support agriculture and build a hemp industry to support rural economic devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
