Bill Text: HI SB86 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 86

Amended

Bill Title: Relating To Food Sustainability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-25 - Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). [SB86 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-SB86-Amended.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	86
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO FOOD SUSTAINABILITY.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that there is a growing consensus across scientific disciplines that seafood, including fish and all other animal products harvested from aquatic systems, plays a crucial role in food and nutrition security. The legislature also finds that the total annual value of the State's nearshore coral reef-associated fisheries is estimated to be between $10,300,000 and $16,400,000, with the majority of the value being associated with non-commercial fishing, which amounts to more than 7,000,000 meals per year. The legislature finds however, that the wild seafood system has fallen short of its full potential to enhance food and nutrition security for those most in need because the traditional framing of aquatic animals as a natural resource emphasizes economic development and biodiversity conservation objectives, and the discussions of food and nutrition security and aquatic animals have been disconnected from one another.

The purpose of this Act is to require the state agriculture functional plan to include additional agricultural economic updates that expand the State's priority on increasing local food self-sufficiency and exports.

SECTION 2. (a) Pursuant to section 226-55, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the department of agriculture, in coordination with the office of planning and sustainable development, shall update the state agriculture functional plan to include other agricultural economic updates that expand the State's priority on increasing local food self-sufficiency and exports.

(b) The governor shall submit the updated state agriculture functional plan pursuant to section 226-56, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2026.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.

Report Title:

HDOA; State Agriculture Functional Plan; Office of Planning and Sustainable Development

Description:

Requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, to update the State Agriculture Functional Plan to include other agricultural economic updates that expand the State's priority on food by increasing local food self-sufficiency and exports. Requires the Governor to submit the updated plan to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2025. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

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