Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 2595, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $500,000 out of the tourism special fund for fiscal year 2002-2003 for the enhancement of agricultural tourism venues by the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA).

Your Committee on Conference finds that agricultural tourism is a growing market in the visitor industry and that Hawaii has an opportunity to draw on statewide agricultural resources to enhance growth in this market.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure to clarify that the HTA shall spend not less than $500,000 in the coming fiscal year for this purpose.

It is the intent of your Committee on Conference that the $500,000 appropriated in this measure is funded from within the expenditure ceiling of the Tourism Special Fund.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2595, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2595, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.