STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2719

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3087

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3087, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to expand the market for Hawaiian papayas.

Specifically, this measure appropriates moneys to the Agribusiness Development Corporation to:

(1) Identify factors that affect the quality of Hawaiian papayas; and

(2) Develop and establish protocols to enhance the marketability of Hawaiian papayas.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture; the Agribusiness Development Corporation; the Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawaii; and the OCC Legislative Priorities Committee, Democratic Party of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that the marketability of Hawaiian papayas could benefit from research related to improving the product and efforts to optimize the system that processes, delivers, and markets the product. Your Committee believes that the establishment of a market standard for Hawaiian papayas will encourage good practices when local farmers grow and harvest papaya.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3087, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3087, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair