Bill Text: HI SCR28 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: DOE; Offer Versus Serve Concept; Expanded Implementation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-17 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SCR28 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR28-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2655

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 28

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 28 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO IMPLEMENT A STATEWIDE PLAN TO ELIMINATE THE WASTE OF MILK DISTRIBUTED WITH SCHOOL LUNCHES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Education to implement a statewide plan to eliminate the waste of milk distributed with school lunches.

 

     Comments were submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure prompts statewide action to reduce the waste of both public funds and valuable resources and to convert an existing inefficiency into an opportunity to provide better health for school children.

 

     Upon the consideration of information on the Department of Education's existing efforts to reduce food waste and milk waste, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the language requesting the Department of Education to develop, implement, and report on a statewide plan to eliminate the waste of milk;

 

     (2)  Describing your Committee's findings on the Department of Education's current implementation of the United States Department of Agriculture's Offer versus Serve (OVS) concept;

 

     (3)  Inserting language to encourage the Department of Education to continue implementation of the OVS concept and to expand implementation of the OVS concept to all of Hawaii's public schools; and

 

     (4)  Amending the measure's title to reflect its amended purpose.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 28, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 28, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Housing,

 

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair