STAND. COM. REP. NO.  79

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 995

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 995 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to rebuild existing programs that educate, support, and encourage youth to pursue agriculture careers by appropriating unspecified sums to the Department of Education for the Future Farmers of America Program and the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources of the University of Hawaii at Manoa for the 4-H Program.

 

     The Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, The Local Food Coalition, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, and two concerned individuals supported this bill.  The University of Hawaii supported this measure with an amendment.  Animal Rights Hawaii opposed this bill.

 

     Should the Committee on Education or the Committee on Finance, or both, further deliberate on this bill, your Committee on Agriculture respectfully requests that they consider and appropriately act upon the recommendation of the University of Hawaii that the funding for the 4-H Program be in the form of a grant to the 4-H Foundation.

 

     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. 995 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair