STAND. COM. REP. NO.  508-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2317

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 2317 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL TOURISM,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the counties to allow overnight accommodations as part of agricultural tourism activities.

 

     A member of the Maui County Council testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Agriculture, Office of Planning, and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation testified in support of the intent of this measure.  The City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding a sunset date of June 30, 2117; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, for the purposes of facilitating further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Economic Revitalization & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2317, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2317, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Economic Revitalization & Business,

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair

 

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair