Bill Text: HI HB486 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Future Farmers of America; 4-H; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to AGL/EDU/HRE, WAM. [HB486 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB486-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  794

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 486

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 486 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education and the University of Hawaii for the implementation and operation of Future Farmers of America and 4-H programs to educate and support youth in pursuing agricultural careers.

 

     The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Local Food Coalition, Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Monsanto Hawaii, Ulupono Initiative, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  Two concerned individuals expressed their opposition toward this measure.  One concerned individual offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting unspecified appropriation amounts; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 486, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 486, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair