| 47 | | - | SECTION 1. Section 27-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows: "§27-8 Contracts for food; percentage to be grown within the State. (a) The department of education, department of health, department of corrections and rehabilitation, department of defense, and University of Hawaii system shall each ensure that a certain percentage of the food purchased for public schools, youth campuses, public hospitals, public prisons, and any purchases made directly by the University of Hawaii for use in its academic programs, as applicable, is fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products, as follows: (1) By January 1, 2025, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of ten per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost; (2) By January 1, 2030, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of eighteen per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost; (3) By January 1, 2035, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of twenty-six per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost; (4) By January 1, 2040, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of thirty-four per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost; (5) By January 1, 2045, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of forty-two per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost; [and] (6) By January 1, 2050, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of fifty per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost[.]; and (7) By January 1, 2112, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute one hundred per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost." (b) The department of education, department of health, department of corrections and rehabilitation, department of defense, and University of Hawaii system shall each submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session on progress made toward meeting the benchmarks described in subsection (a), including: (1) The total cost of food purchased during the calendar year preceding that regular session, or in the case of the department of education, during the school year preceding that regular session; (2) The percentage of the total cost of food purchased during the calendar year preceding that regular session, accounted for by the total cost of fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products purchased, or in the case of the department of education, during the school year preceding that regular session; and (3) If the department or University of Hawaii system did not meet the relevant benchmark described in subsection (a), an explanation of why the department or University of Hawaii system did not meet that benchmark. (c) The department of agriculture shall consider and examine: (1) Fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products that could substitute the food purchased by the department of education, department of health, department of corrections and rehabilitation, department of defense, and university of Hawaii system to meet the relevant benchmarks described in subsection (a); and (2) New technologies that could allow for the cultivation of agricultural products, such as wheat, in the State. [(c)] (d) As used in this section: "Fresh local agricultural products" means fruits, vegetables, nuts, coffee, eggs, poultry and poultry products, livestock and livestock products, milk and milk products, aquacultural and maricultural products, and horticultural products, that are one hundred per cent grown, raised, and harvested in Hawaii. "Local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products" means a product for which at least fifty-one per cent of its primary agricultural product is grown, raised, and harvested in Hawaii. "Primary agricultural product" means the major agricultural product in a processed or value-added agricultural or food product." SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2112. |
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| 47 | + | SECTION 1. Section 27-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: "(a) The department of education, department of health, department of corrections and rehabilitation, department of defense, and University of Hawaii system shall each ensure that a certain percentage of the food purchased for public schools, youth campuses, public hospitals, public prisons, and any purchases made directly by the University of Hawaii for use in its academic programs, as applicable, is fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products, as follows: (1) By January 1, 2025, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of ten per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost; (2) By January 1, 2030, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of eighteen per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost; (3) By January 1, 2035, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of twenty-six per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost; (4) By January 1, 2040, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of thirty‑four per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost; (5) By January 1, 2045, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of forty-two per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost; [and] (6) By January 1, 2050, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of fifty per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost[.]; and (7) By January 1, , fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute one hundred per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost." SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. INTRODUCED BY: _____________________________ |
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