STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2848

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2801
                                        H.D. 2
                                        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. 2801, H.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of
Agriculture to conduct mandatory survey and sampling of Porcine
Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome in the swine industry and
to appropriate funds to do so.

     Testimony in favor of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Agriculture, College of Tropical Agriculture and
Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Hawaii Farm
Bureau.  The Office of Information Practices submitted comments.

     Your Committee has heard that the proposed survey requires a
sampling of approximately 4,200 swine from 261 herds on six
islands.  The department has testified that costs of this survey
are primarily for sampling kits at $3 each, and for travel costs
to all islands.  In its deliberations, your Committee has
expressed its intent that the pork producers should not bear the
major costs associated with this procedure.

     Your Committee previously heard and passed S.B. No. 3007,
S.D. 1, a Senate companion, and has amended this measure to
incorporate changes made by the Senate, which would clarify the
release of data collected as a result of the survey and sampling.

 
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In light of the concerns noted above regarding costs to the
industry, your Committee has also amended this measure to restore
the appropriation of $62,300.

     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. 2801, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B.
No. 2801, H.D. 2, 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,



                                   ______________________________
                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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