Bill Text: HI SB326 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Good Agricultural Practices Task Force; Food Safety

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-18 - Act 106, 6/14/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1206). [SB326 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB326-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1067

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 326

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 326, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote food safety by:

 

(1)  Establishing a Good Agricultural Practices Task Force to identify and develop guidelines aimed at ensuring effective food safety and agricultural practices throughout the farm-to-consumer food supply system; and

 

(2)  Appropriating an unspecified amount for the administrative costs of the Task Force.

 

     The Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, and an individual testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Specifying that at least one of the four Good Agricultural Practices Task Force members representing agricultural producers statewide shall represent the interests of organic farmers;

    

     (2)  Adding a member representing the interests of farmers' markets to the Good Agricultural Practices Task Force; and

 

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 326, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 326, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Health,

 

 

____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair		____________________________ JESSICA WOOLEY, Chair