HI SB778

Appropriates funds from general revenues to implement recommendations from the joint fact finding study group's May 25, 2016 report on pesticide use by large agribusinesses on Kauai.

Directs the department of agriculture to expend appropriated funds for the purposes of implementing the study group's findings and recommendations.

Appropriation applies to fiscal years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, with the specific dollar amount left blank in the bill text.

Study group was created following a 2013 Kauai county ordinance on pesticides and genetically modified organisms, and conducted fact-finding between January 2015 and April 2016.