Department Of Agriculture
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Meat Donation. [HB-1382]
[Food ]
[Agriculture ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
Provides for donation of wild game to under-resourced communities. Establishes a task force for development and implementation to expand meat processing capacity in the State. Task force sunsets 6/30/2025. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
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Gettr Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Agriculture. [SB-1590]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Requires the Department of Agriculture to assess the steps necessary for the State to supplement federal authority to perform meat inspections within the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to assess the steps necessary to transfer full authority over meat inspections from federal authority to the State. Appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent inspector positions within the Department of Agriculture to perform meat inspections.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Meat Donation. [SB-1603]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
Provides for donation of wild game to under-resourced communities. Establishes a task force for development and implementation to expand meat processing capacity in the State. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Farms. [HB-1295]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to provide grants to qualified chicken and egg farmers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Pesticides. [SB-1524]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Public Health ]
[Science ]
[Food ]
Requires the department of agriculture to use consistent units of measurement in its summary to the public on the amounts of restricted use pesticides used. Effective 1/1/2024, establishes a one-half mile buffer zone for pesticides around schools and state and county public parks.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Feral Game Mammals. [SB-1529]
[Animals ]
[Agriculture ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Appropriates funds for the establishment of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent position within the Animal Industry Division of the Department of Agriculture that shall find, solicit, and distribute grants for the control of feral game mammals.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Sustainable Land Use. [SB-1521]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Tourism ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to create an integrated land use study for the use of land within the agricultural district. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation, and Hawaii Tourism Authority to update various state functional plans. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Hemp. [HB-1270]
[Agriculture ]
[Cannabis ]
[Economic Development ]
[Food ]
Establishes a task force to gather data and information and make recommendations to the legislature on strategies and actions to support a vibrant hemp industry, agriculture, and rural economic development. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Mamaki Tea. [HB-1250]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Agriculture. [HB-1196]
[Agriculture ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
Requires the state auditor to conduct a performance and management audit of the ten agriculture parks operated by the agricultural resource management division of the department of agriculture.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Mamaki Tea. [SB-1487]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Hemp. [SB-1271]
[Agriculture ]
Amends section 141-43 (a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to delete the requirement for additional rules by the Department of Agriculture to address nuisance issues, including smell, noise, and excessive lighting arising out of the activities of hemp growers.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Agriculture. [HB-974]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Establishes a program specialist position within the Department of Agriculture and appropriates moneys to fund the position. Requires the grant specialist to prioritize assistance for farmers and ranchers who produce local food, at least some portion of which is consumed within the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Sustainable Agriculture. [SB-1273]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Food ]
[Small Business ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
This housekeeping measure addresses potential deficiencies in Act 312, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, which established a three-year cover crop reimbursement pilot program to provide up to 75 per cent cost reimbursement to farming operations in the State for the acquisition of cover crop seeds, green manure, or compost to incentivize such practices.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Hemp. [HB-973]
[Agriculture ]
Repeals the requirement for additional rules by the Department of Agriculture to address nuisance issues, including smell, noise, and excessive lighting arising out of the activities of hemp growers. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Agriculture. [SB-1272]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishes a program specialist position within the Department of Agriculture and appropriates moneys to fund the position. Prioritizes assistance for farmers and ranchers who produce local food that is at least partially consumed within the State.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Hemp Special Fund. [HB-976]
[Agriculture ]
[Cannabis ]
Renames the industrial hemp special fund as the hemp special fund and allows the fund to be utilized for the department of agriculture's responsibilities regarding hemp. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Hemp Special Fund. [SB-1274]
[Agriculture ]
[Cannabis ]
Amends section 141-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to rename the Industrial Hemp Special Fund as the Hemp Special Fund and allow the fund to be utilized for the Department of Agriculture's responsibilities regarding hemp under part III of chapter 141, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Sustainable Agriculture. [HB-975]
[Agriculture ]
Clarifies the requirements for participation under the cover crop reimbursement pilot program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Aquaculture. [SB-1260]
[Agriculture ]
[Funding ]
[Food ]
Appropriates funds to support collaboration between the Department of Agriculture and the aquaculture industry.