STAND. COM. REP. NO.710
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 534
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 534, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources for various agricultural research and outreach programs beyond the University's base budget request.
Specifically, this measure appropriates funds for:
(1) The continued development of high-value agricultural products and a breeding program to provide new agricultural products;
(2) The development of the agricultural incubator initiative to create new, economically viable agribusinesses;
(3) Agricultural biotechnology research and outreach;
(4) Value-added food processing and food safety; and
(5) An integrated bioremediation research, instruction, and extension program.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Replacing the sum appropriated for the development of high-value agricultural products with a blank amount in order to facilitate continued discussion of this measure; and
(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 534, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 534, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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