Bill Text: HI SCR15 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Work Group to Develop Nutrition Guidelines for Government Agencies

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-30 - Deferred one day 05-02-13. [SCR15 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SCR15-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 903

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 15

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 15 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE FORMATION OF A WORK GROUP TO DEVELOP NUTRITION GUIDELINES FOR GOVERNMENT AGENCIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Direct the Department of Health to establish the State Nutrition Guidelines Work Group to draft model food guidelines for all state agencies, create a toolkit for implementing the guidelines, and develop recommendations for implementation of the guidelines in all state agencies; and

 

     (2)  Encourage the use of nutrition guidelines for certain foods sold, provided, or purchased by or made available at all government agencies.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, American Heart Association, and Hawaii Pacific Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that adult obesity in Hawaii more than doubled between 1995 and 2009 and childhood obesity increased by thirty-eight percent.  Your Committee further finds that obesity-related medical expenditures in Hawaii were calculated to be over $470,000,000 in 2009.  Healthy eating is a critical component of reducing obesity, and the availability and prominence of healthy foods and beverages increase the ability of people to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.  Your Committee finds that all food sold or provided on government-run property, purchased by government agencies for their guests at meetings, and made available to all employees in vending machines or on-site vendors should follow nutrition guidelines to ensure the availability and encourage the consumption of nutritious foods at all government agencies.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 15, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 15, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair