THE SENATE

THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2022

 

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT

Senator Mike Gabbard, Chair

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Monday, April 11, 2022

TIME:

1:00 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 224 & Videoconference

 

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The Legislature is accepting written, videoconference, and in-person testimony at public hearings.

A live stream of all Senate Standing Committee meetings will be available on the Senate YouTube Channel.

 

 

A M E N D E D  A G E N D A

 

 

 

GM 653

      Status & Testimony

Submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Advisory Committee on Pesticides, Gubernatorial Nominee, MELVIN TOKUDA, for a term to expire 06-30-2023.

 

 

AEN

GM 654

      Status & Testimony

Submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Advisory Committee on Pesticides, Gubernatorial Nominee, TROY SAKIHARA, for a term to expire 06-30-2025.

 

 

AEN

GM 688

      Status & Testimony

Submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Advisory Committee on Pesticides, Gubernatorial Nominee, STEVE RUSSO, for a term to expire 06-30-2025.

 

 

AEN

GM 735

      Status & Testimony

Submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Environmental Advisory Council, Gubernatorial Nominee, MARY BEGIER, for a term to expire 06-30-2026.

 

 

AEN

GM 793

      Status & Testimony

Submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force, Gubernatorial Nominee, JUSTINE NIHIPALI, for a term to expire 06-30-2025.

 

 

AEN

GM 794

      Status & Testimony

Submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force, Gubernatorial Nominee, SUSAN CROW, for a term to expire 06-30-2024.

 

 

AEN

[Measure deleted on April 11, 2022]

GM 795

      Status & Testimony

Submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force, Gubernatorial Nominee, JONATHAN DEENIK, for a term to expire 06-30-2023.

 

 

AEN

GM 853

      Status & Testimony

Submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Environmental Advisory Council, Gubernatorial Nominee, STEPHANIE DUNBAR-CO, for a term to expire 06-30-2026.

 

 

AEN

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

All testimony received by the Hawai‘i Senate is posted on the Hawai‘i Legislature's website, which is accessible to the public. Please do not include private information that you do not want disclosed to the public.

 

Please go to the Legislature's website, www.capitol.hawaii.gov, to submit written testimony at least 24 hours prior to the hearing. Create a free account on the website, or sign in to an existing account, then click on the "Testimony" icon on the home page to get started. While submitting your written testimony, you will be prompted to indicate if you would also like to testify at the hearing in-person or remotely via videoconference.

 

Please note the following:

 

·       The number of oral testifiers and/or time allotted to each testifier may be limited by the Chair when necessary to adhere to the committee hearing schedule. We may not be able to accommodate everyone who requests to testify orally.

·       Testifiers for this hearing will be limited to 2 minutes each.

 

If you wish to testify via videoconference during the hearing, please review the detailed step-by-step instructions for testimony procedures before you submit your written testimony. Here's a direct link to the instructions: https://capitol.hawaii.gov/docs/testimonyinstructions2022.pdf

 

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For special assistance: The cable TV broadcast and/or live stream of this meeting will include closed captioning. If you require other auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., interpretive services (oral or written) or ASL interpreter), or are unable to submit testimony via the website due to a disability, please contact the committee at [email protected] at least 24 hours prior to 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.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6830.

 

 

 

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Senator Mike Gabbard

Chair