STAND. COM. REP. 2365

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2818

 

 

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. 2818 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to address housekeeping matters related to agricultural commodities and provide for the use of the Certification Services Revolving Fund to hire temporary employees to assist in certifying chicken eggs and meat.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Board of Agriculture.

Your Committee finds that the statutes regulating coffee weighing and the advertising of size, grade, origin, or quality of fresh fruits, vegetables, and coffee are all better placed in Chapter 147, Hawaii Revised Statutes, agriculture grades and standards certification activities. Your Committee also finds that there is a need to hire temporary employees under the Certification Services Revolving Fund to assist in the certification of chicken eggs and meats. Your Committee believes that this measure will address all of these matters.

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. 2818 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair