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. 2136, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate an unspecified amount of funds to implement short-term methods to stop the spread of fireweed.

The Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii, and the Maui Cattlemen's Association supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting the appropriation amount of $50,000;

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. 2136, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2136, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.