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. 2136, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $50,000 for the implementation of short-term control methods to stop the spread of fireweed, provided that the funds appropriated are matched on a one-to-one basis by federal, state, county, private, or any other source of funding.

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

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation amount to $1 to facilitate further discussion. Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for purposes of style and clarity.

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. 2136, 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. 2136, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.