STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2508

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2455

       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 S.B. No. 2455 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to support local agriculture by appropriating moneys for the 4-H program to help educate young people and encourage them to pursue careers in agriculture.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation.

     Your Committee finds that it is important to provide young people with opportunities to gain experience, skills, and ambition to pursue careers in agriculture and that the 4-H program furthers these goals.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     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 S.B. No. 2455, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2455, 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