CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 89-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 871

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

C.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 871, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to establish an agricultural enterprise program within the Department of Agriculture to promote and support diversified agriculture and increase the State's agricultural self-sufficiency.

Specifically, this measure:

(1) Authorizes the Department of Agriculture or its lessees to plan, design, construct, operate, manage, maintain, repair, demolish, and remove infrastructure or improvements on any lands under the Department of Agriculture's jurisdiction where the activity is necessary to support and promote agriculture;

(2) Requires the Department of Agriculture to administer an agricultural enterprise program to manage, under rules adopted by the Board of Agriculture, qualifying agricultural enterprise lands and agricultural enterprises transferred from the Department of Land and Natural Resources; and

(3) Establishes the Agricultural Enterprise Special Fund for planning, designing, constructing, operating, maintaining, managing, repairing, demolishing, and removing infrastructure or improvements on agricultural enterprise lands and for agricultural enterprises.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting provisions establishing the Agricultural Enterprise Special Fund;

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2022; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 871, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 871, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ MIKE GABBARD Chair	____________________________ MARK J. HASHEM Co-Chair
____________________________ DRU KANUHA Co-Chair	____________________________ AARON LING JOHANSON Co-Chair
	____________________________ AMY A. PERRUSO Co-Chair