STAND. COM. REP. NO.  459

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1155

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1155 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROPERTY DAMAGE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the calculation of criminal property damage for damages to agricultural and aquacultural equipment, supplies, or products (agricultural items).  This bill specifies that in calculating the value of damages to the agricultural items, the amount of damages includes future losses and the loss of future production. 

     The Department of Agriculture, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, Maui County Farm Bureau, Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company, and Kauai Coffee Company, Inc., supported this bill. 

     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. 1155 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,

____________________________

CLIFT TSUJI, Chair