STAND. COM. REP. NO.  658-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2429

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2429 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the three ex officio voting members of the Board of Agriculture to designate representatives to attend board meetings.

The Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation supported the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2429, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2429, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair