Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 291 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to add a landscape professional to the Advisory Committee on Pesticides (Committee).

The Hawaii Farm Bureau and Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii testified in support of this measure. The University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources supported the intent of this bill. The Board of Agriculture provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 291, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 291, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Agriculture.