HI SB375

Requires the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Office of the Governor, to develop a strategic plan to double local food production and increase food exports by 2030.

Strategic plan must identify benchmarks and metrics to measure progress toward goals including identifying food crops for local production, lands for agriculture and livestock, irrigation and infrastructure guidance, and effects of federal FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.

Department of Agriculture must submit the strategic plan with proposed strategies, benchmarks, metrics, and any proposed legislation to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the 2020 regular session.

Appropriates $100,000 from the agricultural development and food security special fund for fiscal year 2019-2020 to develop the strategic plan.

Takes effect July 1, 2019.