Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 155 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $217,232 for fiscal year 2003-2004 and $220,000 for fiscal year 2004-2005 for pineapple research.

The Mayor of the County of Maui, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, and Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii supported this bill. The Department of Agriculture and the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by identifying the specific projects funded by this appropriation bill. Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 155, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 155, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.