STAND. COM. REP. NO. 238-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1723

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1723 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii (UH) for:

(1) Agriculture product development and a breeding program;

(2) Beef research;

(3) Nutrition and obesity programs;

(4) Health data collection; and

(5) Sediment testing programs.

The Board of Advisers of the UH-Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR), Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, Kauai Coffee Company, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Nalo Farms, Inc., Big Island Candies, Hawaiian Host, Green Point Nurseries, Parents and Children Together, Hawaii Meals on Wheels,

several UH faculty members, and several individuals submitted testimony in support of this bill. CTAHR supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amounts to $1 to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1723, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1723, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

 

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K. MARK TAKAI, Chair