Bill Text: HI SR67 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Farm to School Pilot Program; Working Group; 2011 Report
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-03-30 - (S) Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1). [SR67 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SR67-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2883
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.R. No. 67
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Education and Housing and Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Higher Education, to which was referred S.R. No. 67 entitled:
"SENATE RESOLUTION CONVENING A WORKING GROUP TO EXAMINE FARM TO SCHOOL MODELS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to convene a working group to examine farm to school models to propose a pilot farm to school program for each island.
Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Education, League of Women Voters, Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, Hawai‘i Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Kokua Hawai‘i Foundation, Eat Local Hawaii, and two individuals.
Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committees find that farm to school programs provide students with unique, real-world opportunities to learn about topics ranging from nutrition and health to agriculture, ecology, environmental sustainability and economics. In addition, they help support the local agriculture industry and provide students with improved meal options by giving school cafeterias access to fresh local produce. Your Committees further find that this effort has the strong support of public and private schools statewide, as well as Hawaii's agricultural industry.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Adding members to the working group, including the Senate Committee on Education and Housing, House Committee on Education, and representatives from the Department of Agriculture, Department of Education, University of Hawai‘i College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, Hawai‘i Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Farmers Union, Kokua Hawai‘i Foundation, AINA In Schools Program, MA‘O Organic Farms, The Kohala Center, Malama Kaua‘i, Sustainable Living Institute on Maui, and Slow Food Oahu; and
(2) Including in the pilot program considerations: federal and private sector funding sources; and the means to address barriers and challenges to implementation of a farm to school program, including government procurement requirements and training programs for farms.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Education and Housing and Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 67, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 67, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Education and Housing and Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Higher Education,
____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair |
____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair |
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____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair |