STAND. COM. REP. 752

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 155

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 155, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PINEAPPLE RESEARCH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for pineapple research.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, and Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Agriculture and College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources of the University of Hawaii at Manoa submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount to $1 to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes 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 H.B. No. 155, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 155, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair