STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2242

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3048

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3048 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the loan ceiling for farm and ranch operations on Hawaiian home lands from $50,000 to $200,000.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and Ikaika O Kalani Farms.

     Your Committee finds that in order to support farm and ranch operations on Hawaiian home lands, the loan ceiling of $50,000 should be increased to $200,000.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting the requested amendments into the most recent version of Section 215 of the Hawaiian Homes Commissions Act, 1920, as amended; and

     (2)  Adding a severability clause.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3048, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3048, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs,

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JILL TOKUDA, Chair