Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs and Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 291, H.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to broaden the expertise of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides, established under section 149A-51, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by replacing the at-large public member with a landscape professional.

The Department of Agriculture provided written and oral testimony in support of the measure. The Hawaii Farm Bureau, the Big Island Farm Bureau, the Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii, and Kauai Nursery & Landscaping, Inc., submitted written testimony in support of the measure. The University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources provided written testimony supporting the intent of the measure.

Your Committees find that landscapers are affected by the types of pesticides made available for use, and that landscapers can provide valuable input to the advisory committee on pesticides based upon their professional training and experiences.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs and Water, Land, and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 291, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.