Bill Text: HI SCR184 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Urging The Department Of Agriculture's Agricultural Development Division To Conduct And Publish A Study On Protein Consumption In The State.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-29 - The committee on AEN deferred the measure. [SCR184 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2023-SCR184-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.C.R. NO.

184

THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

Urging the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Development Division to conduct and publish a study on protein consumption in the State.

 

 


     WHEREAS, the State's policymakers and business community rely upon agricultural production data published by the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service; and

 

     WHEREAS, this data is inexhaustive, disaggregated by state and county but not by island, and lacking information concerning consumption; and

 

     WHEREAS, agricultural production and consumption data disaggregated by island would benefit the State by informing the policy research, budgeting, investments, and infrastructure planning of policymakers, food banks, and businesses in the State; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2023, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Development Division is urged to conduct and publish a study on protein consumption in the State that utilizes and supplements the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service 2023 Census of Agriculture data; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the study is requested to:

 

     (1)  Include the amount of livestock, poultry, aquaculture, and seafood, including wild-caught seafood, consumed in the State, disaggregated by island; and

 

     (2)  Present data in a Hawaii-focused, user-accessible manner; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Agriculture is requested to submit the study to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture.

 

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title: 

Department of Agriculture; Agricultural Development Division; Protein Consumption; Data

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