STAND. COM. REP. NO.  568

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1194

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 1194 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow agricultural commerce, rather than agricultural tourism, in an agricultural district, and repeal the counties' responsibility to adopt appropriate ordinances before permitting agricultural tourism activities in an agricultural district.

 

     The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation opposed this measure.  The Department of Agriculture and Office of Planning offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to promote further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1194, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1194, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOM BROWER, Chair