STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1587-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 3023

      S.D. 2

      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. 3023, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND MARKETING OF THE ULU BREADFRUIT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support the research, development, and marketing of ‘ulu, or breadfruit, by appropriating funds for fiscal year 2014-2015 to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the research, development, and marketing of ‘ulu.

The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and an individual supported this measure.

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

     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. 3023, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3023, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair