STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1507

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 752

S.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Agriculture and Lower & Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 752, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources for research on and prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens.

The Department of Agriculture, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Hawai‘i Farm Bureau, Maui County Farm Bureau, Maui Farmers Union United, Hawaii Floriculture and Nursery Association, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, and many individuals supported this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Lower & Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 752, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Lower & Higher Education,

____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair

____________________________ RICHARD P. CREAGAN, Chair