STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1215-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 3153
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
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 S.B. No. 3153, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BIOREMEDIATION RESEARCH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds, to be matched by funds from Maui Ag Partners, for a pilot project in soil renutrification research on former pineapple lands in West Maui.
The ILWU Local 142 and Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc., testified in support of this bill. The Department of Agriculture and University of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Amending the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.
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 S.B. No. 3153, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3153, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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