STAND. COM. REP. NO.  848

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 443

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 443 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO UPDATE AGRICULTURAL SOIL CLASSIFICATIONS AND MAPS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Office of Planning to update, in conjunction with the Land Use Commission, the agricultural soil classification system and soil classification maps that serve as a guide to regulating uses within the State agricultural district.  

The Hawaii Farm Bureau submitted testimony in support of the measure.  The Office of Planning, Land Use Commission, and the Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation amounts to unspecified sums and 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 H.B. No. 443, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 443, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair