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 S.B. No. 984 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to change, from March 31 to June 30, the date on which the Board of Agriculture determines the amount of acreage assessments necessary in a fiscal year for irrigation facility projects.

The Department of Agriculture (DOA) and the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this bill will help reduce operating expenses and improve tracking of irrigation facility projects for DOA.

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 S.B. No. 984 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.