STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1543

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 482

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 482, H.D. 2, 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 full-time temporary program manager position in the Department of Agriculture for the pesticide subsidy program.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure formally establishes the temporary pesticide subsidy program manager position, for which an appropriation was previously made under Act 105, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Establishing an unspecified maximum annual salary figure for the program manager position; and

 

(2)  Appropriating unspecified sums from the pesticide use revolving fund for fiscal biennium 2015-2017 for that position.

 

     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. 482, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 482, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair