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. 2960 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide operational assistance to the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center (HARC) by appropriating $5,000,000 to be deposited into the Agricultural Loan Revolving Fund (Revolving Fund) and used for loans to HARC for the construction of suitable facilities for agricultural research and an agricultural community center.

HARC, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company, Kauai Coffee Company, Inc., Crop Care Hawaii, LLC, Gay & Robinson, Inc., Hawaiian Alliance for Responsible Technology & Science, Kamiya Gold, Inc., C & H Farms, and several concerned individuals supported this bill. The Department of Agriculture supported the intent of this measure

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. 2960, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2960, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.