STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3302

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1996

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1996, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MAUI FOOD INNOVATION CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate funds for the completion of the Maui Food Innovation Center capital improvement project at the University of Hawaii Maui College.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation, University of Hawaii Community Colleges, High Technology Development Corporation, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, and Maui County Farm Bureau.

     Your Committee finds that renovating and equipping the Maui Food Innovation Center will help the center provide valuable research, planning, quality assurance, and food safety services to a wide range of farmers, ranchers, fishers, small and midsized businesses and other entrepreneurs, agricultural cooperatives, food establishments, and community members.

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1996, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1996, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair