STAND. COM. REP. NO.1370
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 224
S.D. 1
H.D. 2
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 S.B. No. 224, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PINEAPPLE RESEARCH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the Department of Agriculture (DOA) to conduct pineapple research to strengthen and improve the pineapple industry in Hawaii.
The Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Farm Bureau, and College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Department of Agriculture commented on this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the appropriation amounts to $1 to facilitate further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.
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 S.B. No. 224, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 224, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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