STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2184

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 111

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 111 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law relating to agriculture.

 

     Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amends this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language requiring the Board of Agriculture to create labeling requirements for all agricultural commodities in Hawaii, beginning on July 1, 2015.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 111, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 111, S.D. 1, for further consideration.

 


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

 

 

 

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair