STAND. COM. REP. NO.  554-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2560

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2560, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to assist child care providers in meeting the child care needs of the community by permitting the continued operation of family child care homes in existing farm dwellings on agriculturally designated land despite general use restrictions that permit only agricultural and directly related activities in agricultural districts.   

 

     PATCH-People Attentive to Children and numerous concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Agriculture commented on this measure.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by removing a statutory reference that may have made this measure inapplicable to farm dwellings constructed prior to June 4, 1976.

 

Your Committee clarifies that this measure is intended to permit family child care homes in farm dwellings constructed prior to July 1, 2014, located on and used in connection with a farm where agricultural activity provides income to the family occupying the dwelling.

 

 

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2560, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2560, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JESSICA WOOLEY, Chair