STAND. COM. REP. NO.476

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 1253

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1253 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BIG ISLAND PAPAYA INDUSTRY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the Big Island papaya industry to develop new markets, as well as to expand existing markets on the mainland and in foreign countries.

The Representative of the 4th House District, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Papaya Industry Association, Big Island Papaya Growers Association, and W. & C. Julian Farms testified in support of this measure. The Department of Agriculture submitted comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount from $200,000 to $35,000 for fiscal year 2001-2002, to be matched by the industry on a one-to-one basis; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for

purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

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. 1253, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1253, 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, Chair