STAND. COM. REP. 1270
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 1495
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
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. 1495, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII DROUGHT PLAN,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to appropriate state funds to supplement federal funding for further development and planning of the Hawaii Drought Plan.
The Hawaii Agricultural Research Center, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Maui County Farm Bureau, and Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii testified in support of this measure. The Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in support of the intent of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the appropriation to $1 for the purpose of further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
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. 1495, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1495, S.D. 1,
H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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