STAND. COM. REP. NO. 180
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: S.B. No. 671
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. 671 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to make housekeeping amendments to temporary employee, coffee weighing, and agriculture advertising provisions.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Agriculture.
Your Committee finds that several provisions in the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to agriculture need to be amended for clarity and efficiency. This measure specifically:
(1) Allows temporary employees to be hired under the certification revolving fund to assist in chicken egg and meat certifications. This assistance will help to free the professional employees to conduct more complex certification activities;
(2) Moves the coffee weighing provisions in section 141-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to chapter 147, HRS, a more appropriate chapter which deals with agricultural grades and standards certification activities; and
(3) Moves the authority of the Department of Agriculture to regulate the advertising of size, grade, origin, or quality in conjunction with price under chapter 148 to chapter 147, HRS, a more appropriate chapter, which deals with agricultural grades and standards certification activities.
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. 671 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,
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____________________________ RUSSELL S. KOKUBUN, Chair |
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