STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1261

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 1239

      S.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 1239, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RAPID OHIA DEATH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Agriculture for research on prevention and mitigation of rapid ohia death.

The Department of Agriculture, Department of Land and Natural Resources, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Hawaii Green Growth, Kukaiau Ranch LLC, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Conservation Council for Hawaii, Sierra Club of Hawaii, Hawaii Island School Garden Network, Democratic Party of Hawaii Education, Environmental, and Hawaiian Affairs Caucuses, The Maritime Group, LLC, Kalihi Palama Hawaiian Civic Club, and many individuals supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1239, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Agriculture,

____________________________ RICHARD P. CREAGAN, Chair

____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair