Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2017 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The Department of Agriculture, HARC, the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference, Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii, Agro Resources, Inc., Waialua Farmers Cooperative, Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, Hawaii Egg Producers Cooperative, Waialua Vine-ripe, Gay and Robinson, Inc., and concerned citizens testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to $1 for the purpose of further discussion.

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. 2017, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2017, H.D. 1.