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. 3195 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funding to support Future Farmers of America programs.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education and a former member of Future Farmers of America at Waialua High and Intermediate School. Your Committee also received comments from the Board of Agriculture.

Your Committee finds that Future Farmers of America is an organization that not only encourages excellence in farming, but promotes leadership, confidence, self-esteem, and perseverance as well.

Your Committee has amended the measure to note that this valuable program is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary nation-wide.

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. 3195, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3195, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.