STAND. COM. REP. NO. 716

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 1508

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1508 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for capital improvement projects for the Department of Agriculture (DOA).

The Department of Agriculture, Hawai‘i Farm Bureau, Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, and Pacific Agricultural Land Management Systems supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing all the appropriation amounts to unspecified sums; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2150, to encourage further discussions.

Your Committee believes that the capital improvement projects in this measure will be worthy of funding after DOA's meaningful input and justification on each project.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1508, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1508, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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RICHARD P. CREAGAN, Chair