STAND. COM. REP. NO.651-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 1939

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1939, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURAL WATER DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support Hawaii's agricultural industry by appropriating $45,000,000 to improve agricultural water infrastructure. Of this amount, $5,000,000 will be used for federal aid financing or reimbursement.

The Department of Agriculture, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Big Island Farm Bureau, Maui County Farm Bureau, Kauai County Farm Bureau, Molokai Farm Bureau, Honomalino Irrigation Cooperative, MacFarms of Hawaii, Inc., Hawaii Macadamia Nut Association, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Mother Goose Farms, East Kauai Water Users' Cooperative, and Gay & Robinson, Inc. supported this measure. Ka Lahui Hawaii commented on this bill.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount to $1 for the purpose of furthering discussion;

(2) Changing the amount of funds to be used for federal aid financing or reimbursement to $1 for the purpose of furthering discussion;

(3) Changing the means of financing from general funds to general obligation bonds;

(4) Providing that the appropriation made for capital improvement projects shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium, provided that all appropriations that are unencumbered as of June 30, 2004 shall lapse; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1939, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1939, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair