Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2767 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to address the problem of agricultural pests in Hawaii by appropriating $250,000 as interim funding for the fruit fly eradication program.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Center for Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics Research Initiative at the University of Hawaii (UH), Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, C & H Farms, and the Maui County Farm Bureau supported this bill. The Department of Agriculture supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 2767, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2767, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.