HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	782
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019		H.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.  The legislature finds that as the demand for unskilled labor increases, farmers and ranchers continue to search for alternative ways to operate their farms through technology, like small equipment tractors from Japan.  According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, small equipment engines from foreign countries like Japan do not comply with standard regulations.

     The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to establish a pilot program to identify efficient foreign agriculture small equipment and retrofit engines to comply with Environmental Protection Agency standard regulations.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $         or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2019-2020 to establish a pilot program to identify and to purchase the outer shell of foreign agriculture small equipment and retrofit engines to comply with Environmental Protection Agency standards.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of agriculture for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2150.

 

Report Title:

DOA; Small Agriculture Equipment; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to establish a foreign agriculture small equipment pilot program to identify efficient agriculture equipment and retrofit engines to meet the United States Environmental Protection Agency's standards.  (HB782 HD1)

 

 

 

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