STAND. COM. REP. NO.827-02
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: S.B. No. 2121
S.D. 1
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 Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2121, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PAPAYA RESEARCH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to appropriate an unspecified amount of funds for papaya research to include:
(1) Selection, segregation, and micropropagation of high performing Laie Gold Lines papaya varieties;
(2) Production of the top 25 lines for field tests; and
(3) Field tests at three different locations to assess performance of these top 25 lines.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Kahuku Brand Matsuda-Fukuyama Farms, Inc., and several concerned individuals. The Department of Agriculture commented on the bill.
Your Committee finds that this bill will provide needed research assistance that will serve to identify high-performing plants for Hawaii's papaya industry, which has been adversely affected by the papaya ring spot virus.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Specifying $60,000 as the amount to be appropriated for papaya research; and
(2) Requiring a one-to-one match of funds appropriated in this bill by funds from other sources; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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 S.B. No. 2121, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2121, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,
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____________________________ FELIPE P. ABINSAY, Chair |
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