STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3664

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     H.B. No. 2337

        H.D. 1

        S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2337, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PESTICIDES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to replace representatives from the sugar and pineapple industries with representatives of the coffee and diversified agriculture industries on the Advisory Committee on Pesticides.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture, University of Hawaiʻi System, Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau, and Hawaiʻi Farmers Union United.

 

     Your Committee finds that there has been a significant reduction in the agricultural footprint of the sugar and pineapple industries since the Advisory Committee on Pesticides was established.  Your Committee believes that amending the membership of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides by replacing the sugar and pineapple industries with a representative from the coffee industry, which is among the top three most economically significant crops in the State, as well as adding a representative of diversified agriculture, will allow broader representation of commodities.  This measure will update the membership of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides to more accurately reflect the existing landscape of the agriculture industry in the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making it effective upon its approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2337, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2337, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair