STAND. COM. REP. NO.  572-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2009

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2009 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MILK CONTROL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to safeguard and protect the State's milk industry by requiring the Milk Control Special Fund to have a reserve of not less than $300,000 to be used for contingency cost items, including audits, incurred in the administration of the Hawaii Milk Control Act.

The Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau, and Ulupono Initiative testified in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2009 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair