STAND. COM. REP. NO.473

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 861

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 861 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE OF CERTAIN AGRICULTURE-RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE ON KAUAI,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure the provision of essential infrastructure needed to sustain diversified agriculture on Kauai by appropriating funds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) for a one-year period.

Testimony in support of this measure was presented by ADC, Gay & Robinson, Inc., Pioneeer Hi-Bred Seed Co., Syngenta Seeds, Inc., the Kauai County Farm Bureau, the West Kauai Agri-Products, Inc., the Saiva Siddhanta Church, and one individual. The County of Kauai Office of Economic Development and the East Kauai Water Users' Cooperative offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Increasing the appropriation from $300,000 to $540,000; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity.

Your Committee requests ADC to justify the need for the $540,000 to the Committee on Finance, including a breakdown of the funds.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 861, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 861, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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FELIPE P. ABINSAY, Chair