STAND. COM. REP. NO. 49-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1994
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B.
No. 1994 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide necessary funds to
assist in maintaining current minimum levels of agricultural
research and development at the Hawaii Agriculture Research
Center (HARC).

     Testimony in support of the bill was received from HARC,
University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human
Resources, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawai'i Forest Industry
Association, Alexander and Baldwin, Inc., Waialua Farmers
Cooperative, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Pineapple Growers
Association of Hawaii, Gay & Robinson, Inc., and two individuals.
The Department of Agriculture (DOA) testified in support of the
bill, provided that the bill does not replace or adversely affect
the priorities in DOA's Executive Biennium Budget.

     It is your Committee's intent that funding for agricultural
research and development by HARC be representative of a
partnership between the public and private sectors, and therefore
urges the various agricultural industry associations to
contribute moneys to HARC's efforts.


 
 
 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Increasing the amount of the appropriation from
          $750,000 to $1,000,000; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity
          and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1994, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1994, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair