STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2817
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2155
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2155, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to assist the Agribusiness Development Corporation in its task of agribusiness development. Specifically, this measure:
(1) Permits the Agribusiness Development Corporation to purchase permanent conservation easements for farm and ranch lands protection;
(2) Permits the Agribusiness Development Corporation to contract with financial institutions for lease management services; and
(3) Makes an appropriation for the purchase of agricultural lands in Waialua, Oahu, owned by the Galbraith Estate by the Agribusiness Development Corporation.
Your Committee has allowed the amount to be appropriated in section 8 of this measure to remain unspecified to facilitate further discussion and has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of consistency and clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2155, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2155, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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