STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3399

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2178

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2178, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a program to provide grants to qualified feed developers within the Livestock Revitalization Program.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture, the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, and the Ulupono Initiative.

 

     Your Committee finds that the high cost of livestock feed imported from other states presents a major challenge for Hawaii's livestock industry.  Your Committee believes that providing grants to feed developers will encourage the local production of feed, which will bolster the agricultural and livestock industries and strengthen the economy.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2178, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair