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. 1256 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to extend the deadline for the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture to submit the State Agricultural Water Use and Development Plan to the Legislature.

The Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Maui County Farm Bureau, and Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

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. 1256, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.