Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 168 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to revitalize Hawaii's agricultural industry by appropriating $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2005-2006 for the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation (HFBF) to conduct agricultural research and market development.

HFBF, Growing Creations, LLC, Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Gay & Robinson, Inc., Meadow Gold Dairies, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii, and several concerned citizens supported this bill. The Department of Agriculture and University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources supported the intent of this measure.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by inserting an additional appropriation of $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2006-2007 for HFBF to conduct agricultural research and market development. Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments have been made for style, clarity, and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 168, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 168, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.