Department Of Agriculture

State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Farms. [HB-1295] [Agriculture ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Food ]
Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to provide grants to qualified chicken and egg farmers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)

Sponsored by: Rep. Adrian Tam Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Composting. [SB-1236] [Agriculture ] [Waste Management / Recycling ] [Budget and Spending ] [Funding ] [Grants ]
Appropriates $5 million dollars to the Department of Agriculture for the Compost Reimbursement Program.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Donovan Cruz Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Taro. [HB-275] [Agriculture ] [Food ] [Funding ] [Grants ]
Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to provide grants to assist taro farmers in meeting the costs of cultivating taro for consumption. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Sponsored by: Rep. Daynette Morikawa Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Aquaculture. [SB-1260] [Agriculture ] [Funding ] [Economic Development ] [Food ]
Appropriates funds to support collaboration between the Department of Agriculture and the aquaculture industry.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy San Buenaventura Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Aquaculture. [SB-114] [Agriculture ] [Animals ] [Food ] [Science ]
Requires the Animal Industry Division of the Department of Agriculture to administer an assessment and approval process to import and move aquatic livestock in the State. Requires the Animal Industry Division to develop a risk-based framework for the aquatic livestock assessment and approval process and to undertake certain activities to develop and expand the aquaculture industry. Defines aquatic biorisk, aquatic livestock, and biocontainment.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 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.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Brenton Awa Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To The Department Of Agriculture. [SB-831] [Agriculture ] [Real Estate ]
Authorizes the department of agriculture to acquire property for immediate or future use. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)

Sponsored by: Sen. Donovan Cruz Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Regulation Of Importation. [SB-633] [Agriculture ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Animals ] [Data Privacy ]
Requires the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Aquaculture. [SB-115] [Agriculture ] [Water ] [Crime ] [Public Lands and National Parks ] [Environmental ] [Food ] [Law Enforcement ]
Establishes within the Department of Agriculture, an Aquacultural Area Lease Program for the purpose of identifying state facilities, state lands, and state marine waters that are suitable for use and lease as commercial aquacultural areas. Allows agencies having control and management of identified aquacultural areas to lease the facilities, lands, and waters to the Department of Agriculture for the purposes of the Act. Allows the program to use the moneys in the Aquaculture Development Special Fund to carry out the purposes of the Act and requires (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Donna Kim Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Amy Perruso Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Aquaculture. [SB-818] [Agriculture ] [Economic Development ] [Food ]
Transfers the business, processing, distribution, and marketing functions of the Aquaculture Program from the Department of Agriculture to the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Appropriates moneys. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)

Sponsored by: Sen. Angus McKelvey Received Notice Of All Senate Conferees Being Discharged (sen. Com. No. 340). on 03/20/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Capital Improvement Projects For The Benefit Of The Honalo Marshalling Yard. [SB-662] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Budget and Spending ] [Funding ] [Infrastructure ]
Appropriates funds for a capital improvement project for the Honalo Marshalling Yard. (SD1)

Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Gabbard Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 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)

Sponsored by: Rep. Della au Belatti Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Aquaculture. [SB-648] [Agriculture ] [Animals ] [Science ] [Funding ] [Budget and Spending ]
Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish and administer an aquaculture disease diagnostic laboratory. Appropriates funds for the laboratory. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions within the Department of Agriculture. (SD1)

Sponsored by: Sen. Angus McKelvey Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 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.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Lynn Decoite Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Environmental Impact Statements. [HB-699] [Agriculture ] [Environmental ] [Energy ] [Food ]
Exempts the proposed drilling, construction, or use of a well and well appurtenances on lands leased from the Department of Agriculture from the requirements of the environmental impact statements law, provided that the land is being used to support agriculture and food production.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Cedric Gates Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 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.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Kouchi Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Tourism. [HB-209] [Tourism ] [Agriculture ]
Requires the department of agriculture to include a statement on desecration laws in the plant and animal declaration form. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Sponsored by: Sen. Troy Hashimoto Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Aquaculture. [SB-650] [Agriculture ] [Funding ] [Economic Development ] [Food ] [Science ]
Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for an aquaculture park that promotes commercial aquaculture expansion. Requires a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2024. Appropriates funds. (SD1)

Sponsored by: Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Aquaculture. [HB-488] [Agriculture ] [Water ] [Crime ] [Public Lands and National Parks ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Economic Development ] [Law Enforcement ]
Establishes the aquacultural area lease program within the department of agriculture to identify state facilities, state lands, and state marine waters that are suitable for use and lease as commercial aquacultural areas. Allows agencies having control and management of identified aquacultural areas to lease the facilities, lands, and waters to the department of agriculture. Allows the program to use the moneys in the aquaculture development special fund and requires the revenues obtained from aquacultural area leases to be deposited into the aquaculture (continued...)

Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Todd Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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