STAND. COM. REP. NO. 921-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2146

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. 2146, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL TOURISM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Authorize agricultural tourism activities, including certain overnight accommodations, under certain conditions and only in counties that have adopted ordinances regulating agricultural tourism uses and activities; and

(2) Require the Land Use Commission to adopt rules that establish requirements applicable to all farming operations that undertake agricultural tourism.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Agriculture; Land Use Commission; Office of Planning and Sustainable Development; Agribusiness Development Corporation; and Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau.

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. 2146, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair