Report Title:

Procurement Code; Preference for Hawaii Agriculture

 

Description:

Requires procurement contracts for food operations of state facilities to be awarded to lowest responsible and responsive bidders, with preference given to agricultural products raised or grown in Hawaii.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1683

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to the procurement code.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§103D-    Hawaii agricultural products.  (a)  To encourage the purchase and use of Hawaii agricultural products in the food operations of state facilities, including state correctional facilities, state hospitals and healthcare facilities, and public schools, contracts shall be awarded to the lowest responsible and responsive bidders, with preference given to the agricultural products raised or grown in Hawaii.

     (b)  The policy board shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91 governing preference for Hawaii agricultural products.  The rules shall establish percentages of preference and the method of determining the qualifications of various agricultural products for preference.

     (c)  The state procurement office, with the assistance of the department of agriculture, shall develop a Hawaii agricultural product program that shall require the state purchasing agents of food operations at state facilities, including state correctional facilities, state hospitals and healthcare facilities, and public schools to:

     (1)  Apply a preference to the purchase of agricultural products that are raised or grown in Hawaii before purchasing agricultural products that are not raised or grown in Hawaii; and

     (2)  Set goals to increase, in increments, the purchase of Hawaii agricultural products from ten per cent per year to a maximum of fifty per cent per year.

     (d)  The chief procurement officers for food operations at state facilities, including state correctional facilities, state hospitals and healthcare facilities, and public schools, shall periodically review their specifications to determine whether discrimination against procured Hawaii agricultural products exists and shall revise these specifications to eliminate any discrimination.

     (e)  This section shall not apply whenever its application will disqualify an agency from receiving federal funds or aid.

     (f)  For purposes of this section, "Hawaii agricultural products" means any floricultural, horticultural, viticultural, forestry, nut, coffee, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, farm or plantation products, and fish and aquacultural commodities raised or grown in Hawaii."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

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