Bill Text: HI HB2430 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Agriculture; Agricultural Development and Food Security Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-06 - (H) 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 McKelvey, Takai excused (2). [HB2430 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2430-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  115-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2430

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2430 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to create an agricultural development and food security program within the Department of Agriculture.

 

     The Department of Agriculture, Poamoho Organic Produce, The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaii Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Crop Improvement Association testified in support of this measure.  Kona Coffee Farmers Association testified in support of the intent of this measure.  Haleiwa Farmers Market and one individual testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2430, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2430, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,

 

 

		____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair