STAND. COM. REP. 2553

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2816

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2816 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide staggered terms for the Board of Directors of the Agribusiness Development Corporation.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Agribusiness Development Corporation and Hawaii Agriculture Research Center.

Your Committee finds that staggered terms further the public interest by promoting institutional memory and enhancing the continuity of policy and decisionmaking in government agencies. Additionally, your Committee believes that the appointment process for the board members should be made subject to Section 26-34, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to ensure uniformity in the appointment process for public officials.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making the appointments by the Governor subject to Section 26-34, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2816, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2816, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair