STAND. COM. REP. NO.  587-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2548

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2548 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ANAHOLA HAWAIIAN HOMES ASSOCIATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligations bonds and appropriate $750,000 for the planning, design, construction, and materials and equipment of the East Kauai Community Recreation Center and Anahola Pilot Agricultural Park.

The Department of Agriculture and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the amount of the general obligation bonds and the amount of the appropriations for the two capital improvement projects to encourage further discussion.

Should your Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure further, your Committee on Agriculture respectfully requests that it consider issuing general obligation bonds in the amount of $750,000 and appropriating $500,000 for the East Kauai Community Recreation Center and $250,000 for the Anahola Pilot Agricultural Park.

     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 H.B. No. 2548, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2548, H.D. 1.

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

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair