Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1641 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish the Non-agricultural Park Lands Special Fund, which among other things, is to be used to pay for costs incurred in managing, administering, and overseeing non-agricultural park lands that are transferred, or are in the process of being transferred, to the Department of Agriculture (DOA).

The Hawaii Agriculture Research Center supported this bill. DOA supported the intent of this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1641 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Economic Development & Business Concerns.