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. 2184, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support Hawaii's agriculture industry by appropriating an unspecified amount of funds for:

The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Forest Industry Association, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company, Kauai Coffee, Hawaii Export Nursery Association, Kilauea Agronomics, Tropical Hawaiian Products, and the Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii supported this bill. The University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Hawaiian Host, Inc., and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by 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. 2184, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2184, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.