STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1077

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   S.B. No. 249

      S.D. 2

      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 Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 249, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the Department of Agriculture (DOA) to acquire, renovate, and furnish a slaughterhouse facility within Campbell Industrial Park.

     The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation supported this bill.  DOA and Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Inc., supported the intent of this measure.  Animal Rights Hawaii and several concerned individuals opposed this bill. 

     Your Committee finds that if the State enters into a public private partnership for the management of the slaughterhouse facility, an audit should be conducted to assess and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the partnership in managing the facility.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $1,600,000;

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

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

     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 S.B. No. 249, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 249, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair