STAND. COM. REP. NO. 878

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 1497

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1497, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require and appropriate funds for the Department of Agriculture to develop an online reporting tool to document applications of restricted use pesticides; and

(2) Appropriate funds to convert temporary Environmental Health Specialist III positions into permanent positions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture; Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau; and Hawaiʻi Reef and Ocean Coalition. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Crop Improvement Association.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1497, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair