STAND. COM. REP. NO.  409

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1475

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1475 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FARM TO SCHOOL MONTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to support local agriculture and promote healthy foods for children in schools by officially designating October as the "Farm to School Month".

     The Department of Agriculture, Department of Health, Department of Education, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Kokua Hawaii Foundation, Malama Kauai, Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, Hawaii Island School Garden Network – The Kohala Center, and numerous concerned individuals supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

     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 H.B. No. 1475, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1475, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Health.

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

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair