STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2095

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2466

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2466 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WOMEN AND INFANT CHILDREN FARMERS' MARKET NUTRITION PROGRAM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds as a state match for the establishment and administration of the United States Department of Agriculture's Women and Infant Children Farmers' Market Nutrition Program.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committees find that this measure will encourage lower income women to buy fresh produce which will improve their health and the health of their children while supporting our local farmers and benefitting the local economy.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Appropriating funds out of the Healthy Hawaii Initiative rather than the general fund; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2466, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2466, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair