Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2815 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to eliminate the requirement for the Governor's approval of orders amending the established minimum prices or salvage values of milk.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that the Governor's approval of orders amending the established minimum prices or salvage values for milk should be eliminated, because the formulas used to establish those prices and values were previously established by the prior governor through administrative rule. Thus approval of subsequent changes is unnecessary.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2815 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.