Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1106 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to extend the time provided to the Department of Agriculture (DOA) in Act 101, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 1998, as amended by Act 192, SLH 2000, to submit the State Agricultural Water Use and Development Plan.

DOA, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Maui County Farm Bureau, and Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1106 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.