STAND. COM. REP. NO.  297

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1735

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Tourism & Culture and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1735 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT ESTABLISHING A COMMISSION TO COMMEMORATE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF HAWAII'S RANCHING COMMUNITY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to honor the contributions of Hawaii's ranching community by establishing the Waiomina Centennial Celebration Commission to prepare and coordinate programs and activities to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Championship of 1908.

     The Waimea Community Association, Maui County Farm Bureau, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requiring the Commission to provide a status report of its activities prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2008; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Tourism & Culture and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1735, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1735, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Tourism & Culture and Agriculture,

____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair