STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3518

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.C.R. No. 92

       H.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, Technology and the Arts, and Agriculture, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 92, H.D. 1, entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION DECLARING MARCH AS LOCALICIOUS HAWAII MONTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to support and promote the first annual Localicious Hawaii campaign in March 2014, which recognizes local restaurants that are committed to buying local while raising awareness for Hawaii Agricultural Foundation's Ag in the Classroom Veggie U Program by declaring March to be "Localicious Hawaii Month".

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Agricultural Foundation, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Maui County Farm Bureau, and Maui School Garden Network.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

     Your Committees find that the Hawaii Agricultural Foundation is launching its first annual Localicious Hawaii campaign to recognize local restaurants that are committed to buying locally grown produce while also raising funds to support future farmers in Hawaii.  Of the more than sixty-five participating restaurants, each restaurant will create a dish incorporating locally grown, raised, or caught products and donate the proceeds to the Hawaii Agricultural Foundation's agricultural education programs.  Localicious Hawaii will be held during the month of March to coincide with National Agricultural Day, which was recently celebrated on March 25, 2014.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, Technology and the Arts, and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 92, H.D. 1, and recommend its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, Technology and the Arts, and Agriculture,

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair	____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair
	____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair