STAND. COM. REP. NO. 52

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 215

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 215 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PINEAPPLE RESEARCH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for pineapple research.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, and the Maui County Farm Bureau testified in support of this measure. The Department of Agriculture and the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources submitted comments on the measure.

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. 215 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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FELIPE P. ABINSAY, Chair