STAND. COM. REP. NO. 261-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 2703
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2703 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee respectfully requests that the Committee on Finance examine the possibility of providing funding to the Department of Agriculture for the data collection and reporting requirements established pursuant to this measure. Additionally, your Committee respectfully requests that the Committee on Finance examine the figures used in the preamble to the measure concerning imported food.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Removing the language that prohibits discretionary approvals if food sustainability standards are not achieved; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
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. 2703, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2703, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,
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____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair |
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