Bill Text: HI SB991 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Procurement

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to AGR, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB991 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB991-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 674

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 991

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 991, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to support agriculture in the State by increasing the consumption of locally grown food.

 

     More specifically, this measure exempts from the Public Procurement Code the purchase of fresh meats, fresh produce, animals, and plants to be used by any governmental body.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of Planning, Department of Public Safety, State Procurement Office, Board of Agriculture, and Ulupono Initiative.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation.

 

     Your Committee finds that the promotion of local agriculture results in improved economic activity and food security.  This measure will promote local agriculture by making it easier for governmental agencies to acquire local agricultural commodities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (2)  Making a technical nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 991, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 991, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair