THE SENATE

KA ‘AHA KENEKOA

 

THE THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2025

 

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT

Senator Mike Gabbard, Chair

Senator Herbert M. "Tim" Richards, III, Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2025

 

DATE:

Monday, February 3, 2025

TIME:

1:05pm

PLACE:

Conference Room 224

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

TIMESLOT:

AEN

 

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

 

 

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SB 678

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Establishes the Agricultural Development and Food Security Special Fund.  Requires a portion of the Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax to be deposited into the special fund.  Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture in an amount equal to three per cent of the State Budget.

 

AEN, WAM

SB 496

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Requires the Board of Agriculture to define the terms "bona fide farmer" and "bona fide agricultural activity".  Requires a report to the Legislature.

 

AEN, WAM

SB 245

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO OWNERSHIP OF AGRICULTURAL LAND.

Beginning 1/1/2026, prohibits certain entities from owning, purchasing, or acquiring ownership of agricultural lands.

 

AEN, JDC/WAM

SB 329

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO WATER POLLUTION.

Requires at least fifty per cent of treatment works effluent to be R-1 recycled water by January 1, 2045.  Amends the year by which no treated or raw sewage shall be discharged into state waters.

 

AEN, WAM

SB 681

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Repeals the exemption to the general excise tax for agricultural businesses engaged in the production of genetically engineered agricultural products.

 

AEN, WAM

SB 724

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER REDEMPTION.

Repeals the exemptions for certain dealers of deposit beverage containers and related provisions.  Requires all dealers of deposit beverage containers to operate as redemption centers.  Effective 7/1/2026.

 

AEN, CPN

 

 

 

 

 

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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