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 S.B. No. 1034, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure the long-term productive use of agricultural lands by allowing certain agricultural lands leased or available to be leased by the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), to be transferred to, and managed by, the Department of Agriculture (DOA).

DLNR, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Hawaii Forest Industry Association, and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation testified in support of this bill. DOA supported the intent of this measure. The Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter opposed this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 1034, 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. 1034, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.