STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1431-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2849

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2849, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the use of agricultural lands:

 

(1)  For agricultural-energy facilities, provided that the primary activity of the agricultural-energy enterprise is agricultural activity; and

 

(2)  To provide affordable rental housing to agricultural workers and agricultural support buildings to agricultural business operators and support services by using or rehabilitating existing structures on plantation community subdivisions.

 

     The Department of Agriculture and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation supported this bill.  G&R Ag-Energy supported the intent of this measure.  The Hawaii Agriculture Research Center supported this bill with amendments.  The Office of Planning and City and County of Honolulu, Department of Planning and Permitting provided comments. 

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2849, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture,

 

 

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair

 

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KEN ITO, Chair