STAND. COM. REP. NO. 782-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2789
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2789, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to enable
the Hawaii Organic Farmers Association to develop local and
overseas markets for Hawaii-grown organic produce.

     Maui Pineapple Company Ltd., the Hawaii Chapter of the
Sierra Club, the Big Island Farm Bureau, the Hawaii Farm Bureau
Federation, and the Hawaii Organic Farmers Association testified
in support of this bill.  The College of Tropical Agriculture and
Human Resources and the Department of Agriculture supported the
intent of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount to $1 to facilitate
          further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style
          and 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.
2789, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2789, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair