Bill Text: HI SR70 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Convening a Legislative Agriculture Policy Task Force to Review Agricultural Policies from Other States to Assist with the Development of Hawaii's Agricultural Industry

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-30 - (S) Report adopted, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SR70 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SR70-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3096

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 70

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred S.R. No. 70 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION CONVENING AN AGRICULTURE POLICY TASK FORCE TO REVIEW AGRICULTURAL POLICIES FROM OTHER STATES IN PROVIDING FOR HAWAII'S AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to convene an agricultural policy task force to review agricultural policies from other states to assist with the development of Hawaii's agricultural industry.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation and Hawaii Cattlemen's Council.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Agriculture. 

 

     Your Committee finds that the task force established by this measure will be beneficial to Hawaii's agricultural industry by helping to craft a comprehensive agricultural plan for the State based on good agricultural practices.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments, including amendments to the title, for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 70, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 70, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,

 

		____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair