STAND. COM. REP. NO.  903-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2538

      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. 2538, 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 broaden the Agribusiness Development Corporation's waste-reduction and recycling projects.  This measure authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to finance the Corporation's public-private partnership to establish a livestock feed mill operation that uses waste materials, such as unusable macadamia nut fruit and shells, and converts the unusable agricultural parts and byproducts into aquaculture and livestock feed.

 

     The Department of Agriculture, Agribusiness Development Corporation, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Ulupono Initiative, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Inc., and two concerned individuals supported this measure.  A concerned individual opposed 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. 2538, 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