Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 861, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to authorize the Agribusiness Development Corporation to provide for the operation and maintenance of agriculture infrastructure systems on Kauai.

The Kauai County Office of Economic Development, Kauai Chamber of Commerce, Kauai Economic Development Board, Agribusiness Development Corporation, Kauai County Farm Bureau, Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc., Saiva Saddhanta Church, East Kauai Water Users' Cooperative, Ceatech USA, Syngenta Seeds, Inc., a Kauai County Council member, and an individual submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the general fund appropriation amount to be deposited into the Hawaii Agricultural Development Revolving Fund to $1.

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. 861, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 861, H.D. 2.