Bill Text: HI HB876 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To The Advisory Committee On Pesticides.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-12-10 - Carried over to 2022 Regular Session. [HB876 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-HB876-Introduced.html
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PESTICIDES.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The advisory committee on pesticides is tasked with advising and assisting the department of agriculture in developing or revising laws and rules to carry out and effectuate the purposes of chapter 149A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and with advising the department in pesticide problems. At the time of the advisory committee's establishment, the sugar and pineapple industries were major stakeholders in the State's agricultural landscape. In 1980, Hawaii was home to fourteen sugar and four pineapple plantations that covered more than 300,000 acres. In 2017, these two crops accounted for less than 5,000 acres. According to a 2017 U.S. Department of Agriculture report, diversified agriculture accounted for over $84 million in production while the coffee industry provided the State over $43 million. It is therefore the purpose of this Act to remove the statutory requirement that the sugar and pineapple industries be represented on the advisory committee on pesticides and to update the committee to include representatives of the coffee and diversified agricultural industries.
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2. Section 149A-51, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§149A-51 Advisory committee. There shall be an advisory committee on
pesticides composed of but not limited to the chairperson, or the chairperson's
designated representative, who shall head the committee and one representative
each from the department of health, department of land and natural resources,
University of Hawaii college of tropical agriculture and human resources, [sugar
industry, pineapple industry,] coffee industry, diversified agriculture
industry, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, pesticide industry, structural
pest control industry, an environmental organization, a citizen group, and a
landscape professional. Members of the
advisory committee shall be appointed by the governor from a list of persons
recommended by the respective agencies and industries in accordance with
section 26-34. The committee shall
advise and assist the department in developing or revising laws and rules to
carry out and effectuate the purposes of this chapter and in advising the
department in pesticide problems."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken. New statutory
material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act, upon its approval, shall take effect on July 1, 2021.
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INTRODUCED BY: |
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BY REQUEST |
Report Title:
Department of Agriculture; Advisory Committee on Pesticides
Description:
Removes the statutory requirement for representatives of the pineapple and sugar industries and adds the statutory requirement for representatives of the coffee and diversified agriculture industries on the Advisory Committee on Pesticides.
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