STAND. COM. REP. NO. 821

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 557
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

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

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TROPICAL
     FLOWER RESEARCH AND PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to support the floriculture and
nursery products industry by appropriating funds to conduct
research and promote tropical flowers.

     The Big Island Dendrobium Grower's Association, the Hawaii
Florists and Shippers' Association, the Big Island Farm Bureau,
the Hawaii Anthurium Industry Association, the Hawaii Tropical
Flower Council, the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, and the West
Hawaii Orchid Growers Association testified in support of this
measure.  The Hawaii Agriculture Research Center testified in
support of the intent of this measure.  The Department of
Agriculture and the University of Hawaii College of Tropical
Agriculture and Human Resources commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amounts to $1 for the
          purpose of continued discussion; and

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for
          clarity.


 
 
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     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.
557, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 557, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair