Bill Text: HI SB2695 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Livestock Feed Production; Pilot Program; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-15 - (S) Act 122, 6/15/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1224). [SB2695 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2695-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2576

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2695

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2695, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIVESTOCK FEED,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to create a livestock feed feasibility pilot project to research the viability of growing and processing feed in the State.  In addition, the bill directs the development of a livestock feed program, to the extent possible, on lands held by the Department of Agriculture.

 

     Your Committee finds that the rising cost of feed for livestock animals has resulted in the closure of a number of dairies.  The livestock feed feasibility pilot project in this measure would improve the State's food security by allowing local dairies to obtain locally produced feed, thereby allowing consumers to obtain locally produced milk and beef, and decreasing the State's dependence on imported foods.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the livestock feed feasibility pilot project shall explore the viability of growing and processing livestock feed within the State and, to the extent feasible, begin growing and processing livestock feed on land held by the Department of Agriculture;

 

     (2)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified sum; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2695, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2695, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair