STAND. COM. REP. NO.  324

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1277

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1277 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATEWIDE AGRICULTURE WATER DEVELOPMENT STUDY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds out of the Agricultural Development and Food Security Special Fund for the Department of Agriculture (DOA) to complete the statewide agriculture water development study.

     Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, and two concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Agriculture supported the intent of this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying that the appropriation be made to complete the Statewide Agriculture Water Use and Development Plan; 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 Agriculture and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1277, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1277, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair

____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair