STAND. COM. REP. NO.640-02
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: H.B. No. 2172
H.D. 1
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. 2172 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $1,000,000 for agricultural initiatives as follows:
(1) $500,000 for:
(A) Research and development of high-value agricultural products and biotechnology; and
(B) Creation and adoption of agricultural management practices that protect Hawaii's environment;
and
(2) $500,000 for the development of the agribusiness incubator initiative.
The Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Forest Industry Association, Maui County Farm Bureau, Aloun Farms, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company, Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference, Hawaii Export Nursery Association, and Tropical Hawaiian Products testified in support of this measure. The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources of the University of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the
appropriation amounts to $1 each for the purposes 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. 2172, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2172, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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