STAND. COM. REP. NO. 999-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1960

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1960, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT PLANNING ORGANIZATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for temporary positions within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to support the activities of a district organization for a Statewide Economic Development District.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development; Hawaii Food Industry Association; Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau; and Chamber of Commerce Hawaii.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the number of positions to be established to an unspecified number; and

(2) Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount.

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. 1960, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1960, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair