STAND. COM. REP. NO.  933

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.C.R. No. 20

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 20 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE FORMATION OF A WORK GROUP TO DEVELOP NUTRITION GUIDELINES FOR GOVERNMENT AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support healthy nutrition by requiring the Department of Health to establish the State Nutrition Guidelines Work Group to, among other things:

(1)  Draft nutrition guidelines for state agencies;

(2)  Create a toolkit for implementing the nutrition guidelines; and

(3)  Develop recommendations for implementing the nutrition guidelines in all state agencies.

The Department of Health, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaii Pacific Health, American Heart Association, and an individual supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing its title to conform with the contents of the measure and to read as follows:  "ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO DEVELOP NUTRITION GUIDELINES FOR STATE AGENCIES"; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 20, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 20, H.D. 1.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair