Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2767, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to address the problem of agricultural pests in Hawaii by appropriating interim funding in anticipation of federal funding for the fruit fly eradication program.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation and C&H Farms testified in support of this bill. The Department of Agriculture supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2767, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2767, H.D. 2.