STAND. COM. REP. NO. 716-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2771

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2771, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AN AGRICULTURAL PARK IN ROYAL KUNIA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide more agricultural opportunities in Hawaii by making an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture to develop a master plan for an agricultural park in Royal Kunia.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, Meadow Gold Dairies, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill. The Department of Agriculture provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount to $1 to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for consistency, clarity and style.

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. 2771, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2771, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair