STAND. COM. REP. NO. 917-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2140

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. 2140, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ORNAMENTAL GINGER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for statewide research into ornamental ginger pathogens, prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens, production and distribution of pathogen-free ornamental ginger plants, and outreach to ornamental producers.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture; Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau; Maui County Farm Bureau; East Oʻahu County Farm Bureau; Hawaii Floriculture and Nursery Association; Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii; and four individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the University of Hawaiʻi System and two individuals.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2140, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2140, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair