STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2845

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2407
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2407, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency
appropriation for the Department of Agriculture (DOA).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the DOA and the Hawaii Community Development Authority.

     This measure makes an appropriation from the general fund
and authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds.  The
appropriation and the bonds are for the purpose of providing the
necessary moneys and authorization to relocate the measurement
standards program of the DOA and to construct a new building to
accommodate the measurement standards and commodities program of
the quality assurance division of the DOA.  The relocation is
necessary as part of the Hawaii Community Development Authority's
redevelopment of Kakaako on Oahu.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying the lapsing of unexpended and unencumbered
          funds at the end of the applicable fiscal years; and


 
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     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for preferred
          drafting style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2407, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as
H.B. No. 2407, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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