STAND. COM. REP. NO.  675

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 850

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 850, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to address the budgetary shortfalls experienced by the University of Hawaii College Of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources' Cooperative Extension Service by appropriating funds for critical unfunded positions.

The Department of Agriculture; a Councilmember of the Kauai County Council; University of Hawaii System; Hawaii Farm Bureau; Maui County Farm Bureau; Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii; Hawaii Cattlemen's Council; and many individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 850, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair