STAND. COM. REP. NO. 824

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 948
                                     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.
948, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     AGRICULTURAL WATER USE AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to
implement the Agricultural Water Use and Development Plan under
Act 101, Session Laws of Hawaii, 1998.

     The Hawaii Florists and Shippers' Association, the Hawaii
Agriculture Research Center, and the Hawaii Farm Bureau
Federation testified in support of this measure.  The Department
of Agriculture commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for
          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.
948, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 948, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair