Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2176 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a temporary agricultural cooperative under the Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) to assist farmers in the county of Maui with the marketing of their products.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from a concerned citizen. The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation and the Maui County Farm Bureau supported the intent of this bill. The ADC offered comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the termination date of the temporary agricultural cooperative from December 31, 2007, to June 30, 2005. Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for the purposes of style and clarity.

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 H.B. No. 2176, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2176, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.