STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1611-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2039

      H.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 2039, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCES COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for its cooperative extension service.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau, Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Hawaii Farmers Union United, Ulupono Initiative, and several individuals supported this measure.  The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Department of Agriculture commented on 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 S.B. No. 2039, H.D. 1, 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