THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

 

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Chair

Senator Gilbert Kahele, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

TIME:

2:45 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

HB 2703, HD2

      (HSCR944-12)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY.

Creates a new chapter in the Hawaii Revised Statutes requiring the Department of Agriculture to develop a food sustainability standard to promote local food production to help diversify the local economy.  Effective July 1, 2030.  (HB2703 HD2)

 

AGL, WAM

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

Click here to submit testimony to the Senate Committee on Agriculture.

 

Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Clarence K. Nishihara

Chair