STAND. COM. REP. 155

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1330

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1330 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for a Kauai tropical fruit disinfestation facility (facility), as follows:

(1) $100,000 to refurbish the facility; and

(2) $200,000 for the co-location and establishment of an incubator community kitchen within the facility.

Testimony in support of this bill was submitted by the Kauai County Farm Bureau and the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation. The University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and the Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Designating ADC as the expending agency for appropriations contained in this bill;

(2) Clarifying that the appropriations contained in this bill are to be expended during fiscal year 2003-2004; and

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

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. 1330, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1330, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

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

 

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FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair