STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1100

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 110

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 110, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LOCAL AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to modify certain benchmark goals and timelines for the Department of Education to purchase a certain amount of fresh local agricultural products and local value-added processed, agricultural, or food products.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawaiʻi; one member of the Kauaʻi County Council; Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau; Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Inc.; Hawaii Food+ Policy; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Agriculture and Department of Education.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 110, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair