CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 72

                            Honolulu, Hawaii
                                            , 1999

                            RE:   H.B. No. 945
                                  H.D. 1
                                  S.D. 1
                                  C.D. 1




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

Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the
House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate
in H.B. No. 945, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

    "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PARKS,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to
recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final
passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to allow agriculture-related
commercial operations to be conducted by lessees in agricultural
park complexes.

     This bill allows agricultural park lessees to process,
market, and display agricultural crops or commodities, including
products created through value added processes, in agricultural
parks.  Lessees may sell their products to the general public,
provided that the commercial venture operation is owned by a
lessee in good standing with the Department of Agriculture (DOA).


 
 
 
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     It is the intent of this bill that lessees who lease and
operate commercial ventures in agricultural parks should be
lessees who lease and operate farm ventures in their particular
agricultural parks.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by:

     (1) Authorizing the DOA to dispose of not more than two lots
         within an agricultural park for processing, marketing,
         and displaying agricultural crops or commodities;

     (2) Requiring that these lots be leased and operated by an
         agricultural park lessee in good standing;

     (3) Directing the Board of Agriculture (BOA) to define
         "value added process" through rules, and deleting the
         same definition from the bill;

     (4) Deleting the authorization for the BOA to perform any
         and all acts and adopt rules necessary to carry out the
         provisions;

     (5) Deleting the requirement in section 166-6, Hawaii
         Revised Statutes, that allows agricultural park lands to
         be disposed of for commercial purposes; and

     (6) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
         purpose of consistency.

     Your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent
and purpose of H.B. No. 945, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 945, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted,

MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE        MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE
           SENATE                              HOUSE
                                   
                                   
                                   
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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Co-Chair       FELIPE ABINSAY, Jr., Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair             BOB NAKASONE, Co-Chair

 
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JAN YAGI BUEN, Member              DAVID MORIHARA, Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
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MARSHALL K. IGE, Member            NATHAN SUZUKI, Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
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SAM SLOM, Member                   CHRIS HALFORD, Member