Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 361 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the law relating to agriculture.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that appropriates funds for three positions, two irrigation service worker II positions and one supervisor position, and the necessary equipment to service the lower Hamakua ditch project.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 361, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 361, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, for further consideration.