SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENT

FLOOR AMENDMENT NO.       DATE:

TO:     S.B. No. 1307 S.D. 2

     SECTION 1.  Senate Bill 1307, S.D. 2, is amended by:

     1.  Amending page 2, line 6, to read as follows:

     "island fresh beef, pork, chicken, and eggs."

     2.  Amending page 2, line 7, to read as follows:

     "Fresh beef, pork, chickens, and eggs provide essential"

     3.  Amending page 2, line 12, to read as follows:

     "Without these local industries, all beef, milk, pork, chicken,"

     4.  Amending page 2, line 19, to read as follows:

     "disburse funds to qualified cattle, dairy, hog, and poultry farms that"

     SECTION 2.  Section 2 of Senate Bill No. 1307, S.D. 1, is amended by amending the definition of "qualified producer" in section    ‑1 to read as follows:

     "Qualified producer" means any person that at the time of application for and disbursement of funds under this chapter is in the business of producing:

     (1)  Milk for a herd, located in Hawaii, if not less than three hundred fifty cows;

     (2)  Poultry products form a flock, located in Hawaii, of not less than three thousand birds; [or]

     (3)  Pork from a herd, located in Hawaii, of ten sows or one hundred fifty pigs[.]; or

(4) Beef from a herd, located in Hawaii, of not less than           head of cattle.

     SECTION 3.  Section 2 of Senate Bill No. 1307, S.D. 2, is amended by amending subsections (a) and (b) of section   -3 to read as follows:

     "(a)  Applications for grants by qualified producers shall be submitted on a form furnished by the department and shall be filed with accompanying documentation of animal feed costs; provided that:

     (1)  The applicant shall comply with applicable federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, or disability;

     (2)  The applicant shall have applied for or received all applicable licenses or permits;

     (3)  The applicant shall indemnify and hold harmless the State and its officers, agents, and employees from all claims arising out of or resulting from the feed purchased;

     (4)  The subsidy shall not be allowed within a fiscal quarter if the flock or herd size falls        per cent or more below the required minimum three thousand birds, minimum three hundred fifty cows, [or] minimum ten sows or one hundred fifty pigs, or minimum           head of cattle in any two months of the applicable fiscal quarter; and

     (5)  The department may request an applicant to provide necessary information for the purposes of verifying flock or herd size and feed purchases.

     (b)  Documentation of animal feed costs [and other shipping documents], as requested by the department, shall be filed for feed purchased within the immediate preceding fiscal quarter of filing and shall be effective for feed costs incurred after July 1, 2007."

     SECTION 4.  Senate Bill No. 1307, S.D. 2, is amended by amending section 3 to read as follows:

     "SECTION 3.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2007-2008, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009, for the market development division of the department of agriculture to disburse funds to qualified producers of beef, milk, pork, and poultry for the cost of feed for beef cattle, dairy cows, hogs, or poultry and to provide for the administrative costs of the livestock revitalization program.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of agriculture for the purposes of this Act."

Offered by:	(      )  Carried
	(      )  Failed to Carry
	(      )  Withdrawn