STAND. COM. REP. 1266

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 540

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 540, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support agricultural research and market development by appropriating:

(1) $2,500,000 for fiscal year (FY) 2003-2004 and $2,500,000 for FY 2004-2005 as a grant-in-aid to the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation (HFBF) to be apportioned as follows:

(A) $2,000,000 for research and $500,000 for market development for FY 2003-2004; and

(B) $2,000,000 for research and $500,000 for market development for FY 2004-2005;

and

(2) $217,232 for FY 2003-2004 and $220,000 for FY 2004-2005 for certain pineapple research projects.

The HFBF, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawaii Forest Industry Association, Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii, Gay & Robinson, Inc., Alexander and Baldwin, Inc., Hawaii Egg Producers Association, Jo Ann Johnston & Company, Hawaii Export Nursery Association, and the Commodity Advisory Group supported this bill. The Department of Agriculture and the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amounts of the grant-in-aid to HFBF to $1 for each FY to promote further discussion;

(2) Changing the appropriation amounts for pineapple research projects to $1 for each FY to promote further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 540, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 540, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair