STAND. COM. REP. NO. 234

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1220
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1220 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to direct the Agribusiness
Development Corporation to allot the financial and human
resources necessary to plan, design, and construct an
agricultural subdivision in the Hamakua district on the Island of
Hawaii, and to appropriate $1 for the purposes of this Act.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) and the
Hawaii Farm Bureau.

     Your Committee finds that at its regular January meeting,
the ADC board of directors approved a motion to support
legislative measures providing an agricultural subdivision in
Hamakua, Hawaii.  Your Committee is in support of this measure as
a means of further developing both diversified agriculture and
the economy of the State as a whole.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1220 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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