Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2441 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that certain lands in the Waialua area on Oahu remain in agriculture and are managed to ensure continued viability to meet the needs of Waialua farmers.

Your Committee finds that agricultural lands in the Waialua area need to be preserved and dedicated for agricultural use. This bill provides a procedure to acquire Waialua agricultural lands through land exchanges by the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and manage the lands under the Agribusiness Development Corporation. The corporation would be advised by the proposed Waialua Agricultural Region Subcommittee.

Your Committee has amended the bill by changing the effective date from upon approval to February 31, 2020, for the purpose of continuing discussion on this matter.

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. 2441, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2441, S.D. 1.