STAND. COM. REP. NO.  820-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3309

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 3309, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to further the State's goals of promoting diversified agriculture and increased agricultural self-sufficiency by appropriating an unspecified amount of funds to co-locate the Agribusiness Incubator and Poamoho Station projects and personnel of the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) to an area of Oahu farmland in the Ewa area.

     CTAHR, the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, and Dole Food Company Hawaii supported this bill.  The Department of Agriculture and Agribusiness Development Corporation submitted comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3309, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair