STAND. COM. REP. NO.  763-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2306

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2306, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to enable the Department of Agriculture to expend the $500,000 in general funds that was appropriated under Act 183, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, from its Food Safety Certification Costs Grant Special Fund (Special Fund) by directing the deposit of the general funds appropriated into the Special Fund and appropriating that amount out of the Special Fund for expenditure by the Department of Agriculture to support local farmers and ranchers with food safety certification costs.

 

     The Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Ulupono Initiative, and Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

 

     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. 2306, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair