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. 291, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to broaden the expertise of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides by replacing the at-large public member with a landscape professional.

The Department of Agriculture, Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii, and the Big Island Farm Bureau supported this bill. The University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources supported the intent of this measure.

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. 291, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.