Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 328 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure the proper protection of important historical sites in Hawaii by appropriating funds to match a grant from the Farmland Protection Program to acquire the development rights for the agricultural lands surrounding the Kukaniloko Birthstones State Historical Site in Wahiawa.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, ILWU Local 142, and Wahiawa Community and Business Association testified in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources supported the intent of this measure.

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. 328 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.