STAND. COM. REP. NO.  492

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 485

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 485 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support Hawaii's agricultural industry by authorizing the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to fund capital improvements for the former Galbraith Estate lands.

 

     The Land Use Research Foundation, Local Food Coalition, and the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.


     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 485, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 485, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair

 

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JESSICA WOOLEY, Chair