STAND. COM. REP. NO. 400-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2801
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2801 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of
Agriculture to survey and sample swine farms to detect porcine
respiratory and reproductive syndrome.

     An individual testified in support of this bill.  The Board
of Agriculture testified in support of the intent of this bill.

     Your Committee amended this bill to correct technical and
stylistic errors.

     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.
2801, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2801, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair