Bill Text: HI SB2891 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To The Department Of Education.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-11 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2891 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2891-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that Act 55, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, amended the objectives and policies of the Hawaii State Planning Act to encourage the purchase and use of Hawaii-grown food and food products by residents, businesses, and governmental bodies.
The legislature further finds that the department of education serves over one hundred thousand nutritionally balanced, affordable meals each day to over eighty-five per cent of the youth in Hawaii. A farm to school program can improve students' health and academic performance by providing fresh and nutritional foods each day.
The purpose of this Act is to require the department of education to conduct a study to include food hubs in its procurement strategy for goods and services related to the aina pono Hawaii state farm to school program.
SECTION 2. (a) The department of education shall conduct a study to include food hubs in its procurement strategy for the aina pono Hawaii state farm to school program. The study shall examine the following:
(1) The feasibility of including food hubs in the aina pono Hawaii state farm to school program;
(2) Regulatory barriers to including food hubs in the aina pono Hawaii state farm to school program; and
(3) Potential costs or saving associated with including food hubs in the aina pono Hawaii state farm to school program.
(b) The department of education shall submit a
report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation,
to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the
regular session of 2023.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 to conduct a study for the inclusion of food hubs in the aina pono Hawaii state farm to school program.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Department of Education; Food Hubs; Aina Pono State Farm to School Program; Study
Description:
Directs the Department of Education to conduct a study for the inclusion of food hubs in the procurement strategy for the Aina Pono Hawaii State Farm to School Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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