STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3119

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2550

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 2550, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the purpose of promoting, regulating, and administering the Made in Hawaii brand program.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; High Technology Development Corporation; Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; Hawai‘i Farm Bureau; Meadow Gold Dairies; KYD, Inc., dba K. Yamada Distributors; and one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Agriculture.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Limiting the purpose of the appropriation to be for the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to work with the Department of Agriculture to promote its existing Made in Hawaii brand program; and

     (2)  Amending section 1 to reflect its amended purpose.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2550, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2550, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology,

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair