STAND. COM. REP. NO.  382

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1208

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1208 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE SENIOR FARMERS' MARKET NUTRITION PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate matching state funds for the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (Program) to expand the Program to Kauai and Maui through the voucher system model used under federal law.  

 

     The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Community Services in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations commented on this measure.

 

     Based on the recommendations of the Office of Community Services, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Allowing for vouchers or any other distribution model that is allowed by federal law to be used in administering the Program; and

 

     (2)  Providing for a maximum of ten per cent of the appropriated funds to be used for administrative purposes.

 

     In addition, your Committee changed the appropriation to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion.

 

     Should your Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that an appropriation amount of $500,000 be inserted for the Program.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1208, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1208, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair