STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2185

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 112

       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 Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 112 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law relating to agriculture.

     Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amends this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language to:

     (1)  Establish within the state treasury a special fund to be known as the Whitmore project facility revenue bond special fund into which the proceeds of revenue bonds shall be deposited for the Agribusiness Development Corporation to purchase certain parcels of land from Dole Food Company, Inc.; and

     (2)  Appropriate funds out of the Whitmore project facility revenue bond special fund to acquire certain lands from Dole Food Company, Inc.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

     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. 112, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 112, S.D. 1, for further consideration.

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

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair