Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2849 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support the efforts of the Waianae Organic Agriculture Center (Center) to improve food security in the Waianae region of Oahu by appropriating $75,000 to meet 50 percent of the Center's annual operating needs.

The Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Nalo Farms, and four individuals testified in support of this measure. Leeward Community College and the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources supported the intent of this bill, provided that its passage does not impact the priorities in UH's budget request.

Your Committee has amended this bill 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 H.B. No. 2849, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2849, H.D. 1.