STAND. COM. REP. NO.1174-02
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: S.B. No. 2121
S.D. 1
H.D. 2
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 S.B. No. 2121, S.D. 1, H.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 assist the papaya industry by appropriating $600,000, provided that the funds are matched on a one-to-one basis by federal, state, county, private, or other funding source.
Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Kahuku Brand Matsuda-Fukuyama Farms, Inc., and Kamiya Farm, Inc. testified in support of this measure. The Department of Agriculture supported the intent of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the appropriation amount to $1 for the purpose of continued discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.
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 S.B. No. 2121, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2121, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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