STAND. COM. REP. NO. 712

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 754

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 754, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LAND ACQUISITION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation to purchase agricultural land.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure enables the Agribusiness Development Corporation to purchase agricultural lands to promote the development and maintenance of agriculture in the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date of this measure to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion on the matter; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 754, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 754, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair