STAND. COM. REP. NO. 719-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2305

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2305, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COFFEE BERRY BORER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the civil service exemption of the Pesticide Subsidy Program Manager position within the Department of Agriculture to June 30, 2022, to correspond with the extension of the Subsidy Program pursuant to Act 65, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, and to allow the Program Manager to assist in processing subsidy applications for pesticide costs incurred in the final year of the Program.

The Department of Agriculture, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Hawai‘i Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Inc. testified in support of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2305, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair