STAND. COM. REP. NO.  834-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1184

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1184, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Agriculture to develop a Food Sustainability Standard to promote local food production to help diversify the local economy, and to appropriate funds for that purpose.

           

     Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation; League of Women Voters of Hawaii; Sierra Club of Hawaii; and two concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Agriculture and the Office of Planning commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1184, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1184, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair