STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3382

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2407
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2407, H.D. 1, S.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 bill is to make an emergency
appropriation for the temporary relocation of, and the
construction of a new building for, those Department of
Agriculture personnel who will be displaced by the State's
ongoing redevelopment of Kakaako and the Honolulu waterfront.

     Specifically, this bill:

     (1)  Appropriates $500,000 in general funds for fiscal year
          1999-2000, to temporarily relocate the Department of
          Agriculture's measurement standards program; and

     (2)  Appropriates $3,800,000 in general obligation bond
          funds for fiscal year 1999-2000, to plan, design,
          construct, and equip a new building for the Department
          of Agriculture's measurement standards program and
          commodities program.


 
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     Your Committee finds that this bill is recommended by the
Governor for immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of
Article VII of the state constitution.

     Your Committee believes that it would be appropriate for the
Hawaii Community Development Authority to pay for the relocation
costs of the Department of Agriculture caused by the Authority's
activities.  The Department of Agriculture stands in the same
position as private entities displaced by the Hawaii Community
Development Authority's activities and should be treated
similarly.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the sum
appropriated for the temporary relocation of the Department of
Agriculture's measurement standards program from $500,000 to
$200,000.

     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.
2407, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2407,
H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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